RHCSA Lab 1.6 — Archive & Compress Files

Simulated environment — commands are limited to lab objectives.

📋 Lab Info

Lab Objective

Create and manage archives with tar, compress with gzip/bzip2/xz, and create compressed tar archives in one step. Essential for backups, transfers, and software distribution.

Time Estimate: 15–20 minutes

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Requirements

☐Create tar archive with tar -cvf

☐List archive contents with tar -tvf

☐Extract to directory with mkdir + tar -xvf -C

☐Compress with gzip then decompress with gunzip

☐Create .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and .tar.xz archives

🎉 Lab Complete!

All archive and compression requirements met.

📝 Steps

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0IntroductionCompleted

Welcome to Lab 1.6. You'll work through archiving, inspecting, extracting, and compressing files using tar and gzip/bzip2/xz.

1Create a tar archiveCurrent Step

Run:

tar -cvf archive.tar file1.txt file2.txt

2List archive contentsPending

Run:

tar -tvf archive.tar

3Extract archivePending

Run both:

mkdir extracted

tar -xvf archive.tar -C extracted

4Compress with gzipPending

Run both:

gzip archive.tar

gunzip archive.tar.gz

5Compressed tar archivesPending

Run all three:

tar -czvf archive.tar.gz file1.txt file2.txt

tar -cjvf archive.tar.bz2 file1.txt file2.txt

tar -cJvf archive.tar.xz file1.txt file2.txt

💡 Explain

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