COMP 206 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2.7: Regular Expression, Gzip, Carriage Return
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Zero of one occurrences of : + one or many occurrences of . Unix archiving and zip files: unix has two ways of archiving files, first. Merge a group of files into a single file known as archiving. This single file can then be compressed in size zipping: three most popular archive tools used on unix, tar. Allows you to combing several files into a single file: gzip. Allows you to compress a single file: gunzip. Unzips a file to compress a collection of files you need to use both tar and gzip: tar, the tar command"s switches: Indicates that a new tar file will be created. Indicates that an existing tar file will be updated in some manner. Indicates that the files from an existing tar file will be extracted. Is important because it specifies the archive filename. If not supplied a default name is used.