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Summing Up
We've looked at the common compression and archiving programs used on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. For archiving files, the tar/gzip combination is the preferred method on Unix-like systems while zip/unzip is used for interoperability with Windows systems. Finally, we looked at the rsync program (a personal favorite) which is very handy for efficient synchronization of files and directories across systems.