Linux Operating System
Year 3 (2025-2026)
Linux Lab 15
Project Overview
This project demonstrates basic Linux file archiving and compression using terminal commands. The project covers creating and managing archive files with tar, compressing archives using gzip, bzip2, and xz, extracting archived files, viewing archive contents, and creating a compressed archive in a single command. The objective is to develop practical skills in Linux file management, backup, and data compression.
System Features & Module Specs
- Create a working directory and sample files
- Create archive files using tar
- View archive contents
- Extract archive files
- Compress archives using gzip
- Compress archives using bzip2
- Compress archives using xz
- Decompress compressed archives
- Create a compressed archive using a single tar command
- Verify archive contents using tar -tzvf
Academic Meta
Lecturer:
Mr. Chhai Lihov
Subject:
Operating System with Linux
Degree:
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
Semester & Year:
Year 3 (2025-2026)
Technologies Used
CentOS