Compress/Decompress

Compressing Files

gzip file	Compress file using gzip.
bzip2 file	Compress file using bzip2.
xz file	Compress file using xz.
zip archive.zip file	Compress file into a zip archive named archive.zip.
tar -czf archive.tar.gz file	Create a gzip-compressed tar archive archive.tar.gz containing file.
tar -cjf archive.tar.bz2 file	Create a bzip2-compressed tar archive archive.tar.bz2 containing file.
tar -cJf archive.tar.xz file	Create an xz-compressed tar archive archive.tar.xz containing file.

Decompressing Files

gunzip file.gz	Decompress a gzip-compressed file.
bunzip2 file.bz2	Decompress a bzip2-compressed file.
unxz file.xz	Decompress an xz-compressed file.
unzip archive.zip	Extract files from a zip archive.
tar -xzf archive.tar.gz	Extract a gzip-compressed tar archive.
tar -xjf archive.tar.bz2	Extract a bzip2-compressed tar archive.
tar -xJf archive.tar.xz	Extract an xz-compressed tar archive.
tar -xvf [file]	Extract files from a tar archive, with verbose output and progress indicator.