How to Compress and Unpack an directory in Linux?

For compress file or directory, GNU tar command is best for this work. It can be use on remote Linux or UNIX server. It does two things for you:
– Create the archive
– Compress the archive

Following is syntax of the tar command:
tar -zcvf archive-name.tar.gz your-directory-name
Where,

-z: Compress archive using gzip program
-c: Create archive
-v: Verbose i.e display progress while creating archive
-f: Archive File name

For example, you have directory called /home/himanshu/data and you would like to compress this directory then so you can type tar command as follows:
$ tar -zcvf data-06032014.tar.gz /home/himanshu/data

Above command will create an archive file called data-06032014.tar.gz in current directory. If you wish to restore your archive then you need to use following command (it will extract all files in current directory):
$ tar -zxvf data-06032014.tar.gz

Where,

-x: Extract files
If you wish to extract files in particular directory, for example in /tmp then you need to use following command:
$ tar -zxvf data-06032014.tar.gz -C /tmp
$ cd /tmp
$ ls –

How to grep from a GZ file on Linux System?
There are few ways by which you can grep from GZ files on Linux .The best way is to use the zgrep command as follows.

zgrep -c “post-offers HTTP/1.1” access_log.11.gz
In the above example i used the grep command on access_log.gz file to get the count of post-offers in that file.

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