File Compression and Archiving

The `tar` and `gzip` commands are the most common

The tar command combines multiple files and folders into a single file, but does not compress anything.
The gzip command compresses files.
Other compression programs available at the command line are compress, zip, and bzip2.

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How would you find out the options for tar and gzip?
How might you find other commands that deal with compression?

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File Compression and Archiving

The tar and gzip commands are the most common

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The `tar` and `gzip` commands are the most common