Free File Compression for Linux

Lhasa is an open source command-line tool designed as a replacement for the UNIX LHA tool, for decompressing .lzs (LArc) and .lzh (LHarc / LHA) archives.Lhasa is compatible with various types of lzs and lzh archives. It is also capable of generating...

AutoArchive is a simple utility written in Python designed to make backups easier. It uses tar for creating archives. The idea of the program is that every information needed for making a backup is in one file - the archive spec file. Path to this...

deco is an open source generic archive file extractor application that features a consistent command-line interface, as well as consistent behavior. deco creates an extraction folder if there is more than one file or directory at the top level of the...

archive.sh is an open source Bash script specially designed to compress files from a specified directory.The script will compress only uncompressed files and is ideal for long-term storage of...

SmartZ is a tool that adds a new version of open to handle gzipped files...

Tardy is a tar archive post-processor. It may be used to manipulate the file headers in tar archive files in various ways.The reason the tardy program was written was because the author wanted to "spruce up" tar files before posting them to the net,...

S3cmd is a command line tool to upload, retrieve and manage data in Amazon S3. It is best suited for power users who don't fear command line. The project is also ideal for scripts, automated backups triggered from cron, etc.Amazon S3 is a reasonably...

S tar or Star is an open source command-line program that can compress/archive many files together into a single tape or disk archive. It is also able to restore individual files from the generated archive.S tar includes a FIFO for speed, multivolume...

The supported compressors are gzip, lzip, bzip2 and xz.The currently provided utilities are:Zcat - Decompresses and copies files to standard output.Zcmp - Decompresses and compares files with Cmp.Zdiff - Decompresses and compares files with Diff.Zgrep -...

patool includes various archive types that can be created, extracted, tested and listed. The advantage of patool is its simplicity in handling archive files without having to remember a myriad of programs and options.The archive format is determined...