7️⃣zipping and unzipping files

gzip, gunzip, tar

gzip

gzip (GNU zip) - used to compress individual files(single files only)

Note: replaces original file with zipped file

Usage ->

gzip [filename]

gunzip

By default it replaces the compressed file with decompressed file

gunzip [filename]

By using `-k` we can keep the original compressed file too

gunzip -k [filename]