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Compressing/uncompressing files

  1. Extracting a tar.bz2 file
    \framebox{ \texttt{ \textcolor{red}{\bf tar jxvf FILENAME.tar.bz2} } }

    This will show you what extracts, and in most cases will be in a sub directory of FILENAME.

  2. Extracting a tar.gz file
    \framebox{ \texttt{ \textcolor{red}{\bf tar zxvf FILENAME.tar.gz} } }

  3. Creating a tar.bz2 file
    \framebox{ \texttt{ \textcolor{red}{\bf tar jcvf FILENAME.tar.bz2 dir1 dir2 ...} } }

    FILENAME.tar.bz2 is the name of the tar file we wish to create. dir1 and dir2 are the names of the directories and/or files we wish to include in the tar.bz2 archive.

    To use gzip compression instead of bz2, simply put zcvf in place of jcvf in the command line

  4. Extracting a .rar file
    \framebox{ \texttt{ \textcolor{red}{\bf unrar x FILENAME.rar} } }

    you may need to install unrar first using \framebox{ \texttt{ \textcolor{red}{\bf sudo apt-get install unrar} } }

  5. Extracting a .zip file
    \framebox{ \texttt{ \textcolor{red}{\bf unzip FILENAME.zip} } }

  6. Creating a .zip file
    To create a zip file containing dir1, dir2, ...: \framebox{ \texttt{ \textcolor{red}{\bf zip FILENAME.zip dir1 dir1 ...} } }


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