gzip and gunzip in Linux CLI - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to compress the file named data.txt using gzip.

Linux CLI

gzip [1]

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

Adata.txt

B-d

Cgunzip

D-c

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'gunzip' instead of the file name.

Using '-d' which is for decompressing.

Using '-c' without redirecting output.

The command gzip data.txt compresses the file data.txt and creates data.txt.gz.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to decompress the file archive.gz using gunzip.

Linux CLI

gunzip [1]

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

A-c archive.gz

Barchive.gz

C-d archive.gz

Darchive

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using '-c archive.gz' without redirecting output.

Using '-d' with gunzip (gunzip decompresses by default).

Using the uncompressed file name instead of the compressed one.

The command gunzip archive.gz decompresses the file archive.gz and restores archive.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the command to decompress file.gz and output to stdout.

Linux CLI

gunzip [1]

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

Afile

Bfile.gz

C-d file.gz

D-c file.gz

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using the file name alone outputs to a file, not stdout.

Using '-d' is redundant with gunzip.

Using the uncompressed file name instead of the compressed one.

The option -c tells gunzip to decompress to standard output without removing the original file.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to create a gzip compressed file backup.gz from backup.txt and keep the original file.

Linux CLI

gzip [1] [2]

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

A-k

Bbackup.txt

C-d

D-c

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using '-d' which decompresses instead of compressing.

Using '-c' without redirecting output.

Not specifying the file name.

The -k option keeps the original file after compression. So gzip backup.txt -k compresses and keeps backup.txt.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to decompress log.gz to log.txt without deleting the compressed file.

Linux CLI

gunzip [1] [2] > [3]

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

A-c

Blog.gz

Clog.txt

D-k

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using '-k' with gunzip (not supported).

Not redirecting output, which deletes the original file.

Using the uncompressed file name as input.

Using gunzip -c log.gz > log.txt decompresses log.gz to log.txt and keeps the original compressed file.