Compressing data with gzip

- [Instructor] In the previous video,…we looked at archiving with CPIO.…In this video, we're going to take a look…at how to compress data with gzip.…We'll also go through some additional features of gzip.…Gzip is a commonly used compression format…in the GNU Linux platform.…It's one of the utilities such as gzip,…gunzip, and zcat that handle gzip compression.…However, gzip can be applied only to…a single file or data stream.…This means that it cannot archive directories…and multiple files, hence we must first create…a tar archive and compress it with gzip.…

Let's see how to operate with gzip.…Gzip can be used both to compress files…and decompress them back to the original.…In order to compress a file with gzip, we use this command.…So, we've got this error just because we have not…created a file in this directory, which we specified here.…Let's now extract a gzip compressed file with this command.…Now, in order to list out the properties…of a compressed file, we use this command.…

The gzip command can read a file from stdin…