{"id":32,"date":"2011-03-07T08:08:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T08:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2011-08-11T06:12:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T06:12:31","slug":"compress-files-with-gzip-and-zip-in-centos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/compress-files-with-gzip-and-zip-in-centos\/","title":{"rendered":"Compress files with Gzip and Zip in CentOS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gzip<\/strong>
\nType the following command to compress a file at a shell prompt<\/p>\n

gzip filename.ext<\/pre>\n
-> The file will be compressed  and saved as filename.ext.gz<\/p>\n
Type the following command to expand a compressed file<\/p>\n
<\/code><code>gunzip  filename.ext.gz<\/code><code><\/pre>\n
-> The filename.ext.gz is deleted and replaced with  filename.ext<\/p>\n
Type the following command to compress multiple files at a shell  prompt<\/p>\n
<\/code><code>gzip filename.gz file1 file2 file3<\/code><code><\/pre>\n
->\u00a0 this command will compress  file1, file2, file3 and put them in filename.gzip.<\/p>\n
Zip<\/strong>
\nType the following command to compress a file at a  shell prompt<\/p>\n
<\/code><code>zip -r filename.zip files<\/code><code><\/pre>\n
->\u00a0 filename represents  the file you are creating and files represents the files you want to put in the  new file<\/p>\n
Type the following command to expand a compressed file<\/p>\n
<\/code><code>unzip  filename.zip<\/code><code><\/pre>\n
Type the following command to compress multiple files at a shell  prompt<\/p>\n
<\/code><code>zip filename.zip file1 file2 file3<\/code><code><\/pre>\n
 <\/code>-> this command will compress  file1, file2, file3 and put them in filename.zip<\/p>\n
If you add directory to multiple files<\/p>\n
<\/code><code>zip filename.zip file1 file2  file3 \/user\/work\/school<\/code> <code><\/pre>\n
->\u00a0 this command will compress file1, file2, file3, the  contents of the \/user\/work\/school directory and put them in filename.zip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gzip Type the following command to compress a file at a shell prompt gzip filename.ext -> The file will be compressed and saved as filename.ext.gz Type the following command to expand a compressed file <\/code><code>gunzip filename.ext.gz<\/code><code> -> The filename.ext.gz is deleted and replaced with filename.ext Type the following command to compress multiple files at a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,11,10,12],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centos","tag-centos-2","tag-gzip","tag-linux","tag-zip"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1pvi1-w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":162,"url":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/web-page-compression-enable-gzip-encoding-and-caching\/","url_meta":{"origin":32,"position":0},"title":"Web Page Compression: Enable gzip Encoding and Caching","author":"Pixel Insert \/ Pixert","date":"November 10, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Website load is one factor Google been considered to rank websites in their search engine. 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