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There are many types of compress file, with each type we should have different command to interact with it. To find which archive type we are working with, use file command. $ file a.zip a.zip: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract $ file b.tar b.tar: POSIX tar archive (GNU) $ file c.tar.gz c.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, last modified: Tue Aug 20 04:33:47 2019, from Unix Here are some most common types i’ve been working with recently. [Read More]