Random Linux+ Question #30

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You are on the command line on your linux computer and you want to compress a file named storage. You need to achieve the highest degree of compression you can get and you are not concerned about how long it will take. You are using the gzip utility. Which of the commands below will compress the file storage as small as possible? Choose only one answer.

1. gzip -c storage
2. gzip -f storage
3. gzip -1 storage
4. gzip -l storage
5. gzip -9 storage
6. gzip -z storage

Answer later.

 

Answer time. You are correct, AJ. The answer is 5. The compression speed can be controlled by adding a switch from 1 to 9 after the command. -1 will compress very quickly but will result in larger files while -9 at the other end of the scale will take longer but produce the best compression. The other answers were bogus.