149 How to specify level of compression when using tar -zcvf? 2011-07-01T18:00:22.243

139 How to password protect gzip files on the command line? 2010-07-12T12:50:47.870

124 Pros and cons of bzip vs gzip? 2010-10-30T17:01:03.143

109 How do I unzip a tar gz archive to a specific destination? 2011-10-19T08:15:51.057

84 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors 2010-07-29T07:17:55.313

81 Why is piping 'dd' through gzip so much faster than a direct copy? 2014-05-29T08:35:55.707

77 How to list the contents of a zip along w/ file sizes and compression ratio via cmd line 2010-09-17T02:54:34.357

77 How to gzip multiple files into one gz file? 2011-03-29T01:22:26.120

74 How to know if a site is gzipped? 2011-06-10T08:07:48.723

67 Command to 'gzip' a folder? 2010-07-09T11:58:42.883

67 How to obtain maximum compression with .tar.gz? 2012-12-01T20:47:48.430

62 gzip without tar? Why are they used together? 2011-03-02T03:40:48.010

53 What is the maximum compression ratio of gzip? 2010-05-09T11:47:14.867

41 What is the correct MIME type for a tar.gz file? 2015-04-15T16:30:56.780

32 Howto pipe: cp | tar | gzip without creating intermediary files? 2011-08-05T11:27:14.683

32 How do I use 7-Zip CLI for Windows to create .tar.gz archives? 2011-09-26T11:13:16.457

31 How to extract a tar file (.tgz) in windows? 2011-01-18T07:23:40.563

30 Why doesn't Gzip compression eliminate duplicate chunks of data? 2012-09-24T18:58:29.110

29 Time to zip very large (100G) files 2013-05-03T17:20:06.133

27 How can I get the uncompressed size of gzip file without actually decompressing it? 2013-07-14T09:15:31.440

26 Rsync friendly gzip 2010-02-03T09:54:05.107

24 How can I evaluate the best choice of archive format for compressing files? 2011-07-03T09:06:59.207

20 How do I uncompress vmlinuz to vmlinux? 2011-06-18T04:09:21.817

18 Fastest GZIP utility 2012-03-14T13:45:51.280

18 Is there a way to force gzip not to overwrite files on conflict? 2013-04-16T15:42:03.360

17 Which archiving method is better for compressing text files on Linux? 2011-12-01T12:33:01.643

16 Unexpected end of file. Gzip compressed file 2011-05-04T18:52:16.133

16 Between xz, gzip, and bzip2, which compression algorithim is the most efficient? 2013-04-10T18:42:37.877

16 Files with same content but with different md5sums when gzip'd? 2013-07-10T13:13:03.750

15 Is there a way to mount a file.tar.bz2 without extracting it onto the filesystem? 2011-03-14T18:02:47.817

14 What is the fastest compression method for a large number of files? 2011-06-19T04:55:36.570

13 SVN directly to tar 2009-11-29T12:59:31.220

13 When using "gzip --decompress", the result is "gzip: MYFILE.zip: unknown suffix -- ignored" on Windows 2013-01-30T20:12:08.393

13 Why is gzip slow despite CPU and hard drive performance not being maxed out? 2013-05-24T04:37:49.640

11 How to gzip a directory, transfer via scp, and decompress in one command? 2012-05-07T17:17:16.883

11 gzip all files without deleting them 2011-02-15T09:41:53.200

10 Converting gzip files to bzip2 efficiently 2009-08-17T00:45:54.690

9 How do I know the gzip compression level? 2011-04-12T16:18:21.450

9 .tgz file – tar: Unrecognized archive format 2013-03-19T19:20:44.137

8 Moving files in a local network - would compressing improve speed? 2009-08-18T12:07:02.917

8 What can be used to 'gzip' in Windows? 2009-09-14T16:58:39.560

8 How do I gunzip a directory? 2009-11-24T18:00:23.197

8 tar Cannot open: No such file or directory 2010-06-09T19:02:10.710

8 Is .gz the same as .gzip? 2017-03-03T18:10:03.530

8 While trying to see the content of a zipped file, I only get information about the zipping process 2019-02-06T15:08:50.200

7 Bash command to compress folder(s) with a password 2009-09-10T17:50:41.643

7 Tar and gzip together, but the other way round? 2010-05-19T20:13:48.593

7 Critical gzip mistake (HELP!) - how to undo 'gzip -r ./' 2011-06-03T22:56:57.077

7 How to GZIP all the files or a list of files from some path? 2011-07-11T15:55:43.343

6 "gzip: stdin has more than one entry--rest ignored" and "gzip: tmp.gz has more than one entry -- unchanged" 2017-08-05T01:20:42.330

5 Decompressing these .gz files gives strange/unexpected results, can you get it working? 2011-05-09T04:57:31.073

5 How can I compress a large file into smaller parts? 2011-08-18T10:07:58.103

5 gzip - Extracting without deleting zip file 2011-09-08T17:09:23.493

5 Is there a command to determine the compression ratio of a tar.bz2 file? 2012-11-02T20:14:17.290

5 Chromium: prevent unpacking tar.gz 2015-07-14T19:41:11.530

5 How to use gzip or gunzip in a pipeline with curl (For binary gz files) 2017-07-27T15:08:11.660

4 Why are there binary differences among compressed files generated exactly the same way from the exact same starting file? 2009-12-18T19:48:54.137

4 Tell if a .gz file is really gzipped 2010-03-03T23:50:33.513

4 Does Linux GZip Zip the File in Place or create a new file 2010-04-02T13:49:26.123

4 Is it more efficient to rsync uncompressed text data or the same data gzipped? 2011-09-21T08:43:21.623

4 Any method to batch-compress multiple files? 2012-02-10T20:13:55.210

4 Find out the size of a .tar.gz archive in the terminal without unpacking 2012-12-19T09:46:33.377

4 gzip several files in different directories and copy to new directory 2013-04-03T16:46:31.883

4 Caveats with gzip --rsyncable - no speedup 2013-10-01T21:59:39.937

4 Why does tar with -z option create archive with different hash everytime 2014-04-17T06:33:47.127

4 Is Gzip supposed to honor original filename during decompress? 2015-01-02T21:57:28.950

4 Unzipping files downloaded from the Arxiv server 2015-09-15T16:42:37.170

4 Archive (.tar.gz) Corruption 2016-01-03T04:54:48.883

4 What is the difference in gzip compression levels? 2016-10-12T14:28:16.073

3 How do I tar/gzip and then delete directories somewhat safely? 2009-11-10T23:14:37.340

3 What type of data is compressed more effectively by bzip2 than gzip/zlib? 2011-05-10T05:57:47.607

3 Control gzip compression rates while archiving files with tar? 2011-06-04T05:20:53.823

3 Google Chrome Developer Tools data transfer size 2012-02-02T02:30:14.857

3 UNIX shell command to expand files of any compressed type 2012-12-10T01:29:36.170

3 Compressing compressed .tar.gz files deterministically 2014-01-23T14:28:36.543

3 Not sure gzip has decompressed the whole file 2014-10-18T09:21:49.520

3 How to tell of a GZip file is still being written while being copied 2015-01-31T23:10:08.537

3 Can't extract tar.gz file from Apache 2015-05-25T17:55:38.583

3 Composer Install .tar.gz 2015-07-06T09:43:56.293

3 view zip file content in tree command style 2015-08-12T05:23:23.880

3 Ctrl-C'd an in-place recursive gzip - is this likely to have broken anything? 2015-08-19T09:34:53.460

3 Using dd to backup disk to same disk 2015-10-01T16:29:11.663

3 Linux pv | gzip doesn't delete original file 2016-01-12T02:01:07.677

2 programmatically extract tar.gz in a single step (on windows with 7zip) 2009-08-31T23:05:04.940

2 gzip compressed file ownership and permissions 2009-11-08T13:56:36.397

2 gzip for 64-bit Windows 2010-08-17T16:40:39.010

2 Join with gzipped files 2010-10-13T20:50:11.320

2 can gunzip work on file without a suffix? 2011-06-14T18:18:44.573

2 My internet connection doesn't send the Accept-Encoding header 2011-07-01T16:42:05.310

2 Unzipping a huge file stalls the server 2011-07-08T11:38:11.493

2 Which is better: using flags, or pipes? 2011-07-13T11:30:12.477

2 Excluding Path While Compressing with TAR/GZ 2011-08-16T10:11:55.037

2 Utility to cat/gunzip a list of files 2011-11-09T17:18:56.707

2 gzip change file ownership 2012-01-06T21:02:01.473

2 Modern command line file compression utilities 2012-02-04T11:42:42.487

2 Difference between caching & gzip for static pages 2012-03-28T03:01:32.250

2 Zip/gzip compression ratio much less in Linux than in Windows 2012-07-13T13:25:23.727

2 General Compressibility Of Various File Formats 2012-09-27T17:18:53.710

2 What command to use to unpack a .tar.gz file in Windows? 2012-12-25T13:46:34.330