zip

ZIP

• most commonly used archiving format out there today

• available on all OSs

• not best compression

Compress:

zip -r archive_name.zip directory_to_compress

Extract:

unzip archive_name.zip

TAR

• common on Linux

• consumes very little time and CPU to compress files,

• compression minor

Compress:

tar -cvf archive_name.tar directory_to_compress

Extract:

tar -xvf archive_name.tar.gz

Extract to specific dir

tar -xvf archive_name.tar -C /tmp/extract_here/

TAR.GZ

• pretty great with good compression and not too much CPU

Compress:

tar -zcvf archive_name.tar.gz directory_to_compress

Extract:

# tar -zxvf archive_name.tar.gz

Extract to specific dir:

# tar -zxvf archive_name.tar.gz -C /tmp/extract_here/

TAR.BZ2

• best compression with most CPU

tar -jcvf archive_name.tar.bz2 directory_to_compress

Extract to specific dir:

tar -jxvf archive_name.tar.bz2 -C /tmp/extract_here/