Reduction in the size of a file is known as file compression. Compression has both space and time advantages. A compressed file takes less disk space, less time to transmit, and less time to copy. A compressed file contains the contents of a file after they have been compressed and a decompressed file contains the contents of the original file (after a compressed file has been decompressed). There are several LINUX commands that can be used for compressing and decompressing files, namely compress, uncompress, gzip, and gunzip. The preferred commands are gzip and gunzip becasue they work better than others. The gzexe command can be used to compress (and uncompress) executable files.
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