Command-line Basics: Decompressing Archive Files

1 · · June 10, 2019, midnight
There’s nothing worse than a friend or colleague sending you an archive file, and you realize you’ve never even heard of the format before. Even worse, you have to root around the Internet to try to find an application that can support it. Fortunately, there are command-line utilities for handling not just the common compression files, like *.zip and *.tgz, but also for the less mainstream files like *.bz and *.7z. Getting started This article is going to make use of the very common commands unz...