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I want to compress a file in debian 6.0 without installing any extra tools (i.e apt-get zip).
Can anyone tell me if this is possible and if so, what the command is for it within shell / bash.
All the tutorials I have found all tell me to install additional software but I am sure Debian must come bundled with some kind of archiving tool.
Almost each new distro has tar included. Use:
This will create tar.gzip archive. If you want it only arch.tar, delete z from parameters.