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    This document discusses digital archiving and compression techniques in Linux. It explains that archiving stores and transfers files to save storage space, while compression makes files smaller. Common compression formats are discussed, such as zip, gzip, bzip2 and tar. Lossless compression eliminates file repetition without data loss, while lossy compression removes some data. The document then demonstrates how to use gzip, bzip2 and tar to compress, archive, decompress and extract files in Linux. It proposes challenges to write scripts to compress, archive and backup files.

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    Week 9 - Lect8 - Comp-Decomp

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    LINUX

    OPERATING SYSTEM I
    (CST8207)

    Algonquin College

    Week9

    By: Arsalan Parsaei

    LINUX OS_I - BY ARSALAN


    UNDERSTANDING DIGITAL ARCHIVING/COMPRESSION
    Archive: file & transfer (data) to a storage
    Files : ( .iso Linux box ) big file
    Compression Technique that makes files smaller in & compressed
    size
    Voice: mp3 music ,voice recorder,
    So what ? phone line VoIP
    In production environment, this comes very
    handy Recorded Video :

    00101000101 Lossless: eliminate repetition | loss amount => 0


    11010100101 Lossy: some data is removed | depend on ratio
    00100010010
    Example:
    00101001101
    Lossless zip gzip png bmp tiff wav
    Lossy: jpg mpeg mp3 mp4

    LINUX OS_I - BY ARSALAN


    ARCHIVING / COMPRESSION TOOLS

    Linux Tools
    tar
    gzip
    bzip2

    LINUX OS_I - BY ARSALAN


    To compress file “f1” : $ gzip f1 (compress f1 to f1.gz)
    To Decompress “f1.gz” : $ gunzip f1.gz (compress f1.gz back to f1)

    To compress : $ bzip2 f1 (compress f1 to f1.bz2)


    To Decompress: $ gunzip f1.bz2
    Ratio: gzip –l *.* or gzip –l f1 shows the
    compression ratio for a file or all the file in
    current directory
    To do file and directory compression and Archiving we use tar utility in Linux

    LINUX OS_I - BY ARSALAN


    To compress all files/Dirs in current directory => $ tar –zcvf W9.tgz .

    LINUX OS_I - BY ARSALAN


    COMPRESS/ARCHIVE WITH TAR & VERIFICATION

    LINUX OS_I - BY ARSALAN


    DECOMPRESSING TAR FILE

    LINUX OS_I - BY ARSALAN


    CHALLENGE

    LINUX OS_I - BY ARSALAN


    WRITE A SCRIPT THAT IS….

     Write a script that is called “zipme.sh” to compress all files in current

    directory (gzip) and show the ratio of compressed files

     Write a script called “backup.sh” to archive/compress all files/dirs. In

    current folder and save it as mybackup.tgz

     Write a script extract mybackup.tgz to new directory call “Restore” in

    home directory

    LINUX OS_I - BY ARSALAN


    WHAT TO DO FOR NEXT WEEK

    • Complete Week 9 assignment in this week lab


    • Read the Week 9 contents and resources and practice
    • Finish Quiz 2 by next lecture

    LINUX OS_I - BY ARSALAN


    LINUX OS_I - BY ARSALAN

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