Pack and unpack archives on Linux

unpack .gz

gunzip archivname.gz

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unpack .tar

tar vxf archivname.tar

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create .tar

tar cvf archivname.tar [folder to be archived]

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unpack .tgz

tar -xzvf archivname.tgz

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create .tgz

tar cvfz archivname.tgz [folder to be archived]

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unpack .tar.gz

gzip -d archivname.tar.gz

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create .tar.gz

gzip -9 archivname.tar [folder to be archived]

(Compression strength 1 - 9;  1 for fast and light compression and 9 for slow and heavy compression)

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unpack .tar.bz2

bzip2 -d archivname.tar.bz2 

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create .tar.bz2

bzip2 -9 archivordner.tar.bz2 [folder to be archived]

(Compression strength 1 - 9;  1 for fast and light compression and 9 for slow and heavy compression)

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unpack .zip 

unzip archiv.zip            #unzip must be installed