cheat-fork-echo/cheat/cheatsheets/gzip
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# To create a *.gz compressed file
gzip test.txt
# To create a *.gz compressed file to a specific location using -c option (standard out)
gzip -c test.txt > test_custom.txt.gz
# To uncompress a *.gz file
gzip -d test.txt.gz
# Discplay compression ratio of the compressed file using gzip -l
gzip -l *.gz
# Recursively compress all the files under a specified directory
gzip -r documents_directory