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Example 1-19
Compressing files gzip, gunzip
To reduce size of our data bank we can compress the files using command gzip. gzip is very successful in reducing size of text files.
Many data and software distributions are in the form of gzipped file. To unzip a given gzipped file use command gunzip.
You can also compress and bundle simultaneously a set of files using command zip. To unzip a compressed zip file use command unzip.