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[[gzip]] is short for GNU Zip, a [[GNU]] open-source replacement for the Unix 'compress' program.
 
[[gzip]] is short for GNU Zip, a [[GNU]] open-source replacement for the Unix 'compress' program.
  

Revision as of 01:35, 11 July 2008

ounoorva gzip is short for GNU Zip, a GNU open-source replacement for the Unix 'compress' program.

The usual file extension for gzipped files is .gz. Unix software is often distributed as files ending with .tar.gz, called tarballs. They are files first packaged with tar and then compressed with gzip. They can be decompressed with gzip -d file.tar.gz. Nowadays more and more software is instead distributed as .tar.bz2 archives because bzip2 compresses files better than gzip.