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Digital Archiving and Compression in Linux by Ghassan Afaneh is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document discusses digital archiving and compression techniques in Linux. It explains that archiving stores and transfers files to save storage space, while compression makes files smaller. Common compression formats are discussed, such as zip, gzip, bzip2 and tar. Lossless compression eliminates file repetition without data loss, while lossy compression removes some data. The document then demonstrates how to use gzip, bzip2 and tar to compress, archive, decompress and extract files in Linux. It propo
- Author
- Ghassan Afaneh
- Language
- EN