Top File Compression for Linux

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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

B1 Free Archiver is a free archiving tool that supports most popular formats, such as zip, rar, 7z, as well as its own b1 format. It is translated in most popular languages.B1 Free Archiver Supports password encrypted archives, archive in archive...

ZipUnzip is an open source graphical application written in Java and designed to act as an archive utility, which can be used to compress and extract to/from zip files.Being written in Java, ZipUnzip is a platform-independent application that supports...

gzip (GNU zip) is an open source and very popular data compression program for Linux and UNIX-like operating systems.gzip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed as a replacement for the 'compress' command. Its main advantages over compress are much...

Lbzip2 is an open source pthreads-based parallel bunzip2/bzip2 filter, passable to GNU tar with the --use-compress-program option. Unfortunately, the software isn't restricted to regular files on input, nor output.In other words, Lbzip2 is a SMP-based,...