Compressing and Archiving files in AIX Operating System

Some AIX basic commands

• who Display the connected users

• whoami Display the current user connected

• man Display manual of a command
• man ls

• df Display information about total space and available space on a file system

• du Display the file space usage

• chfs Change attributes of a file system
• chfs -a size=+500M /usr

• su Change the current user connected
• su - user

• lp Sent a file to the spooler

• lpr Sent a file to the spooler

• wget  Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web.
• wget -b ftp://ftp.arcudi.org/file.tar.gz Download the file.tar.gz in backgroup

• lastreboot See when the system is rebooted the last time

AIX Compress and Archive Commands

• gzip Compress a file
• gzip file.tar Create a compressed file file.tar.gz
• gzip -d Unpack a *.gz file Uncompress a file.tar.gz file
• tar cvf - directory/ | gzip > toto.tar.gz Create a compressed tar file in a single command

• zip Compress a file

• tar  Archive a file
• tar -tvf file Verify the content of a tar file
• tar -xvf file Unpack a tar file
• tar -c file repertory Create a tar file
• tar -cvfX file.tar exclude.txt /tmp/toto/ Create a tar file exluding directories that are present in the exclude.txt file
• tar cvf - directory/ | gzip > toto.tar.gz Create a compressed tar file in a single command

• history See the last command entered

• nl Number lines in a file
• nl -ba file.txt

• lssrc See the status of a subsystem
• lssrc -ls dhcpsd