gzip #

You can compress files using the gzip command. The gzip command uses the LZ77 compression protocol.

The most basic command structure is the following:

gzip examplefile

This will compress the file and add a .gz extension to it.

The original file will be deleted.

To prevent the original file from being deleted you can use the following command structure:

gzip -c examplefile > examplefile.gz

This will leave the original file intact and write the output to examplefile.gz

You can compress multiple files by listing them:

gzip examplefile examplefile2

You can compress all files in a directory using the following command:

gzip -r examplefolder

You can also decompress files using the -d flag:

gzip -d examplefile.gz