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Archives & compression

Tar, gzip, zip, and everything that packs or unpacks.

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044Check whether a compressed backup is corrupt before you need itgzip -tv *.gz2026-10-153 min 033Find out which compressor actually wins on your data before you pick onefor c in gzip bzip2 xz; do printf '%-6s %10d\n' $c $($c -9 -c access.log | wc -c); done2026-09-304 min 012See what is inside a tarball without extracting ittar -tzvf archive.tar.gz2026-08-313 min

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