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6.1 Archive and Compression Utilities

These are utilities for archiving. Utilities like gzip can be used with archiving utilities like tar to compress the file, before archiving. This allows more data to be stored on the archive media.

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Subsections

• 6.1.1 gzip, gunzip, zcat
• 6.1.2 tar
  • 6.1.2.1 tar tricks