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The “gunzip” Command in Linux [9 Practical Examples]

August 30, 2023January 24, 2023 by Jannatul Ferdousi Sylvie

The gunzip is one of the most useful decompression methods in Linux. Using this command, the compressed files can be …

January 10, 2024January 15, 2023 by Jannatul Ferdousi Sylvie

gzip is one of the most useful compression functions in Linux. It uses the Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77) algorithm to reduce …

January 9, 2024December 29, 2022 by Jannatul Ferdousi Sylvie

bzip2 is a command in Linux that is used to compress & decompress files. It uses the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting …

January 9, 2024December 27, 2022 by Jannatul Ferdousi Sylvie

Unzip is a function that is used to decompress a zip(compressed) file. To extract all the files from the zip …

August 30, 2023December 27, 2022 by Monira Akter Munny

ZIP is a universally used archive file format that provides lossless data compression. The zip command line tool in Linux …