If you have any doubt about the many commands and options available on Linux systems for file compression, you might want to take a look at the output of the apropos compress command. Chances are you’ll be surprised by the many commands that you can use for compressing and decompressing files, as well as for comparing compressed files, examining and searching through the content of compressed files, and even changing a compressed file from one format to another (i.e., .z format to .gz format).
You’re likely to see all of these entries just for the suite of bzip2 compression commands. Add in zip, gzip, and xz, and you’ve got a lot of interesting options.
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