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Editor to share with you the use of linux's compress command unix file compression command, I hope you will learn a lot after reading this article, let's discuss it together!

The compress command is a fairly old unix file compression directive. Compressed files are marked with a .Z extension to distinguish uncompressed files. Compressed files can be unzipped with uncompress. If you want to compress several files into one compressed file, you must first tar the files and then compress them. As gzip can produce a better compression ratio, most people have changed to gzip as a file compression tool.

Syntax format: compress [parameters]

Common parameters:

C output the result to the standard output device (usually the screen)-f forces the file to be written, if the destination file already exists, it will be overwritten (force)-v the message executed by the program will be printed on the screen (verbose)-b sets the upper limit on the number of common strings, in bits, the value that can be set is 9 to 16 bits. Since the higher the value, the more common strings that can be used and the greater the compression ratio, it is common to use the default value of 16 bits (bits)-d to extract the compression file-V to list version messages.

Reference example

Compress the file:

[root@linuxcool ~] # compress abc.h

Extract the file:

[root@linuxcool] # compress-d abc.h.Z

Compress according to the specified compression ratio:

[root@linuxcool] # compress-b 7 abc.h

Force compressed folders:

[root@linuxcool] # compress-rf / home/abc/ has finished reading this article, I believe you have some understanding of using linux's compress command unix file compression command, want to know more about it, welcome to follow the industry information channel, thank you for reading!

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