New ways to compress and uncompress a file/folder.

Few ways to compress and uncompress a file/folder.
As my experience it is better to use tar.bz or tar.bz2 when you really need to make free disk spaces.



.tar.bz2
UNCOMPRESS
tar jxvf FileName.tar.bz2
COMPRESS
tar jcvf FileName.tar.bz2 DirName

.bz
UNCOMPRESS
bzip2 -d FileName.bz
OR
bunzip2 FileName.bz
COMPRESS
unknown


.tar.bz
UNCOMPRESS
tar jxvf FileName.tar.bz
COMPRESS
tar cfvpj .tar.bz

.tar
UNCOMPRESS
tar xvf FileName.tar
COMPRESS
tar cvf FileName.tar DirName

.gz
UNCOMPRESS
gunzip FileName.gz
OR
gzip -d FileName.gz
COMPRESS
gzip FileName

.tar.gz
UNCOMPRESS
tar zxvf FileName.tar.gz
COMPRESS
tar zcvf FileName.tar.gz DirName

.bz2
UNCOMPRESS
bzip2 -d FileName.bz2
OR
bunzip2 FileName.bz2
COMPRESS
bzip2 -z FileName


.Z
UNCOMPRESS
uncompress FileName.Z
COMPRESS
compress FileName

.tar.Z
UNCOMPRESS
tar Zxvf FileName.tar.Z
COMPRESS
tar Zcvf FileName.tar.Z DirName

.tgz
UNCOMPRESS
tar zxvf FileName.tgz
COMPRESS
unknown

.tar.tgz
UNCOMPRESS
tar zxvf FileName.tar.tgz
COMPRESS
tar zcvf FileName.tar.tgz FileName

.zip
UNCOMPRESS
unzip FileName.zip
COMPRESS
zip FileName.zip DirName

.rar
INSTALL
RAR : http://www.rarsoft.com/download.htm
[root@www2 tmp]# cp rar_static /usr/bin/rar UNCOMPRESS rar a FileName.rar COMPRESS rar e FileName.rar

.lha
INSTALL
lha : http://www.infor.kanazawa-it.ac.jp/~ishii/lhaunix/
[root@www2 tmp]# cp lha /usr/bin/
UNCOMPRESS
lha -e FileName.lha
COMPRESS
lha -a FileName.lha FileName

.rpm
UNCOMPRESS
rpm2cpio FileName.rpm | cpio -div

.deb
UNCOMPRESS
dpkg -x FileName.deb