FreeBSD Tips

Creating and working with compressed files in FreeBSD server is an easy task.

to compress a file you can use

#gzip filename

to compress each file in a directory,each file will be compressed in one file.

#gzip -r directory-name

to compress all files in a single archive:

#tar -zcvf  archive-name.gz directory-name.

to uncompress an archive:

#tar -zxvf archive-name.gz -C /directory-name

also to uncompress an archive:

#gzip -d archive.gz

to uncompress each file in a directory use

#gzip -d folder-name

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