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Linux Compression and Archiving Commands Cheat Sheet

Linux compression and archiving commands reduce the size of files and directories as well as group and store them. Learn more here.
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How UPX Compression Is Used to Evade Detection Tools

Attackers can use compression to hide malware and fool signature-based detection. Here’s how hackers can use UPX to render malware undetectable.
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Linux Lite 6.4 to Adopt Zstd Compression for Lightning Fast App Updates

Linux Lite 6.4 will be based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS but with the long-term supported Linux 5.15 LTS kernel series instead of Linux 5.19 HWE.
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How to Create and Extract TAR.GZ Files on Ubuntu 22.04?

The pre-installed “tar” command utility supports the compression and decompression operation of “tar.gz” compressed files.

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Zstandard v1.5.4: Faster Compression With New Improvements

Zstandard v1.5.4 was just released, and it promises to decompress and compress files even faster than previous versions.
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How to Extract and Open a .GZ File in Linux Command Line

Tutorial on the concept of decompressing the .gz file using the gzip and tar commands with their flags and the Linux GUI technique to unzip the .gz extension.

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How to Extract/Decompress a WAR File in Linux

If you are familiar with programming languages, specifically Java, then you might be aware of JAR or WAR terms. However, many of you may not have heard of this term or will encounter it in the near future. Today, you will learn what they are, why you should use them, and how to extract/decompress a […]

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How to Extract a .7z Compressed File in Linux

File owners choose several types of compression utilities as per their requirements. Sometimes they may use tar, unzip, bzip, and 7z, among other archiving and compression utilities. And when you want to limit your space footprint, then 7z is an ideal compression mechanism, and that’s a reason one of the websites provides the VMware image […]

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Linux Apps: PeaZip 8.2.0 Released

PeaZip is an open source, cross-platform archive management software that offers encryption and compression functions and can open and extract over 200 archive types. It can schedule archives, create self-extracting archives, and can even be used as a portable program without installation. The software is available under the open source LGPLv3 license and is free […]

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Compress the contents current directory, but compress the smallest files first

ls -s | awk NR!=1 | sort -n | awk ‘{print $2}’ | xargs bzip2 -9v

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