Consider adding tar, gzip, bzip2, zip

[jgraup]

Command	Description
tar -zcvf [.tgz-file] [files]	Zip files with gzip compression
tar -jcvf [.tbz2-file] [files]	Zip files with bzip2 compression
gzip -f -9 [file]	Zip file
tar -zxvf [.tgz-file]	Decompress file
tar -jxvf [.tbz2-file]	Decompress file

Examples

Compress

timestamp=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
tar -zcvf archive.$timestamp.tar.gz myFolder

tar -zcvf data.tgz *.doc
tar -zcvf pics.tar.gz *.jpg *.png
tar -jcvf data.tbz2 *.doc
ls -l

gzip mydata.doc
gzip *.jpg
ls -l

bzip2 mydata.doc
bzip2 *.jpg
ls -l

zip mydata.zip mydata.doc
zip data.zip *.doc
ls -l

Decompress

tar -zxvf data.tgz 
tar -zxvf pics.tar.gz *.jpg
tar -jxvf data.tbz2

gzip -d mydata.doc.gz
gunzip mydata.doc.gz

bzip2 -d mydata.doc.bz2
gunzip mydata.doc.bz2

unzip file.zip
unzip data.zip resume.doc

Links

Bash Zip CheatSheet

[0nn0]

Not included for now, in order to keep things simple. Will reconsider if there are more requests. Thanks!