Gzip, Bzip, Zip
# features
Compression utilities (gzip, bzip2, zip), plus file rollers like tar.gz — the ability to represent many files as one.
# gzip
gzip compress files gunzip decompress gzip files # bzip2
bzip2 tends to outperform gzip on larger files bunzip2 decompression (or bzip2 -d) # zip & unzip
zip filename.zip path/ general usage — note the destination (resultant zip) is specified before the source, unlike gzip and bzip2 unzip decompress