gzip Practice Exercises: Essential Techniques for Mastering the Framework

Here is a practice exercise to help you become more familiar with using gzip:

1. Create a sample text file in a text editor and save it to your computer.
2. Open a terminal and navigate to the directory where the text file is located.
3. Compress the file using gzip with the following command:Copy codegzip filename.txt This will create a compressed file with the “.gz” extension in the same directory as the original file.
4. Verify that the compressed file was created by using the “ls” command to list the files in the directory:bashCopy codels You should see both the original text file and the compressed file with the “.gz” extension.
5. Decompress the file using the “gunzip” command:Copy codegunzip filename.txt.gz This will decompress the file and restore it to its original state.
6. Verify that the original file was restored by using the “ls” command to list the files in the directory:bashCopy codels You should see only the original text file, with no “.gz” extension.
7. Create an archive of multiple files in the directory using tar and gzip with the following command:Copy codetar czvf archive.tar.gz * This will create an archive of all the files in the directory, compress it with gzip, and save it as “archive.tar.gz”.
8. Verify that the archive was created by using the “ls” command to list the files in the directory:bashCopy codels You should see both the original text file and the compressed archive file with the “.tar.gz” extension.
9. Extract the contents of the archive to a new directory using the following command:Copy codetar xzvf archive.tar.gz -C new_directory/ This will extract the contents of the archive to a new directory called “new_directory”.

By practicing these basic gzip commands, you can become more comfortable with using this powerful file compression and archiving tool on your Unix and Linux systems.