By far the most popular file compression utility in Linux is the gzip utility. The gzip package
is a creation of the GNU Project, in their attempt to create a free version of the original Unix
compress utility. This package includes the files.
gzip for compressing files
gzcat for displaying the contents of compressed text files
gunzip for uncompressing files
These utilities work the same way as the bzip2 utilities:
The gzip command compresses every file in the directory that matches the wildcard pattern.
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