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The 'compress' command is normally supplied in all Unix and Linux distributions. The Gzip protocol is also very common, as is the original pkzip format.
7z is also used along with others, but those are the most popular.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoLinux support various compression formats the popular ones are
1. gz (gzip)
2. bz (bZip)
3. rar
4. zip
The most popular are bzip and gzip all s/w distributions come in form of tarball are either gz or bz.
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∙ 12y agoThere are many file compressors to choose from. 7zip, zip, gzip, bzip2, lzma, and ect. Probably the 2 most common are gzip and bzip2.
Run 'man <program name>' to read the manual for the one you want to use.
Below are some examples compressing the file test.txt .
$ 7z a test.7z test.txt
$ zip test.zip test.txt
$ gzip test.txt
$ bzip2 test.txt
$ lzma test.txt
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