All Linux Zip / Compress Commands

1. zip – To compress a file

$ zip file.txt

2. gzip – To compress or expand files

$ gzip file.txt

3. bzip2 – To compress or expand files using block sorting

$ bzip2 file.txt

4. bzcat – Decompress files to output device

$ bzcat file.gz

5. bzcmp – To compare bzip2 compressed files

$ bzcmp file1.bz2 file2.bz2

6. bzdiff – To compare bzip2 compressed files

$ bzdiff file1.bz2 file2.bz2

7. bzgrep – To search bzip2 compressed files

$ bzgrep “search text” file1.bz2

8. bzip2recover – To recover data from damaged bzip2 file

$ bzip2recover

9. bzless – To view bzip2 compressed file

$ bzless file.bz2

10. bzmore – To view bzip2 compressed file

$ bzmore file.bz2

11. znew – To recompress .Z files to .gz files

$ znew file.Z

12. zcmp – compare compressed files

$ zcmp file1.Z file2.Z

13. zmore – To view compressed file

$ zmore file.Z

14. zforce – To force a *.gz extension on all gzip files

$ zforce file

15. gzexe – To compress executable files

$ gzexec file.sh

16. zip – To package and compress (archive) files

$ zip file.txt

17. unzip – To list, test and extract zip compressed files

$ unzip file.txt

18. compress – To compress data

$ compress file.txt

19. uncompress – To expand compressed data

$ unzompress file.Z

20. zcat – To compress or expand files

$ zcat file.gz