Compression Utilities - Linux
You'll be introduced to the most common compression and archival utilities included in many Linux based operating systems.
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- _______ is the process where files are reduced in size by stripping out redundant characters.
- The standard set of instructions used to compress a file is known as the _____________.
- The percentage in which a file size is decreased after compressing is known as the ____________.
- The compress utility using the Adaptive Lempel Ziv coding (LZW) has, on average, a compression ratio of _________.
- What required command is used to compress files using the compress utility?
- What required command is used to decompress files that have been compressed by the compress command?
- GNU zip (gzip) using the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithem (LZ77) has on average a compression ratio of _________.
- What is the required command to decompress .gz files (GNU zip / gzip)?
- The bzip2 utility, using the Burrows-Wheeler Block Sorting Huffman Coding compression algorithm, has, on average, a compression ratio of _________.
- What command is required to decompress files that have been compressed with the bzip2 utility?
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