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Oct 262010
 

Compress and decompress file using 7zip

Answer:

7zip is a well known compression program if you need a very small file size, i.e. high compression ratio.

To install under Ubuntu/Debian:

# sudo apt-get install p7zip

To compress a file

# p7zip test.txt

To decompress a file

# p7zip -d test.txt.7z

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