# 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/`


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