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Archivers and compression
n afio – Compatible superset of cpio with added functionality
n ar – Maintain, modify, and extract from archives. Now largely obsoleted by tar
n bzip2 – Block-sorting file compressor
n compress – Traditional compressor using the LZW algorithm
n cpio – A traditional archiving tool/format
n gzip – The gzip file compressor
n p7zip – 7zip for unix/linux
n pack, pcat, unpack – included in old versions of ATT Unix. Uses Huffman coding, obsoleted by compress.
n pax – POSIX archive tool that handles multiple formats.
n tar – Tape ARchiver, concatenates files
n uncompress – Uncompresses files compressed with compress.
n zcat – Prints files to stdout from gzip archives without unpacking them to separate file(s)