There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them.

In the world of Unix-based operating systems like Linux, file packaging and compression utilities play a pivotal role. One such utility is the zip command, an effective tool for compressing files to ...

If you open the GNOME file manager (this feature is found in most Linux file managers) and right-click a file you want to be zipped, you'll see a Compress entry (Figure 1).

If you have any doubt about the many commands and options available on Linux systems for file compression, you might want to take a look at the output of the apropos compress command. Chances are ...

Sure, you could open a file manager, right-click a folder, and select Compress. But what if you’re on a headless server? A Linux without a GUI isn’t going to offer you a point-and-click affair.

In this how-to, we will look at how to work with tar archives via the terminal, including two of the most popular compression ...

By leveraging these features and commands, you can effectively use Zstandard to manage and compress your files efficiently on Linux systems.