bzip2 and xz compression in Linux CLI - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to compress a file using bzip2.

Linux CLI

bzip2 [1]

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-d

B-k

Cfile.txt

D-x

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using '-d' which is for decompression.

Using '-k' which keeps the original file but is optional.

Using '-x' which is not a valid bzip2 option.

The command 'bzip2 file.txt' compresses the file named file.txt using bzip2.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to decompress a .bz2 file using bzip2.

Linux CLI

bzip2 [1] file.bz2

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-k

B-d

C-c

D-x

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using '-k' which keeps the original file but does not decompress.

Using '-c' which outputs to stdout but does not decompress by itself.

Using '-x' which is not a valid bzip2 option.

The '-d' option tells bzip2 to decompress the file.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the command to compress a file using xz.

Linux CLI

xz [1] file.txt

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-k

B-c

C-d

D-z

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using '-d' which decompresses instead of compressing.

Using '-z' which is not a valid xz option for compression (xz compresses by default).

Using '-c' which outputs to stdout but does not compress by itself.

The '-k' option tells xz to keep the original file after compression. The 'xz' command compresses by default without needing '-z'.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to decompress a file and keep the original using xz.

Linux CLI

xz [1] [2] file.xz

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-d

B-k

C-c

D-z

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using '-z' which compresses instead of decompressing.

Using '-c' which outputs to stdout but does not keep the original file.

The '-d' option decompresses, and '-k' keeps the original file after decompression.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to create a compressed archive with xz and list its contents.

Linux CLI

tar [1] archive.tar.xz [2] | xz [3] > archive.tar.xz

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-cf

B-tf

C-z

D-xf

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using '-xf' which extracts instead of creating or listing.

Mixing up options for tar and xz commands.

Use '-cf' to create an archive, '-tf' to list contents, and '-z' to compress with xz.