gzip

A compression utility for .gz compressed data format. gzip is single-file or stream lossless compression.

Cheatsheet

gzip <options> <filenames>

Common Option Flags:

• -d: Decompress
• -f: Forcefully compress, even if there's a compressed file
• -k: Compress and keep the original file as well
• -r: Recursively compress all files in a folder and subfolders.
• -v: Show stats.