Saturday, April 26, 2014

gzip

  •   gzip command examples
 
To create a *.gz compressed file:
$ gzip test.txt

To uncompress a *.gz file:
$ gzip -d test.txt.gz

Display compression ratio of the compressed file using gzip -l
$ gzip -l *.gz
         compressed        uncompressed  ratio uncompressed_name
              23709               97975  75.8% asp-patch-rpms.txt

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