RickMakes

In this video I go over the basics of using command line compression utilities like gzip, bzip2, xz and 7zip. I use these on a Mac but they are also standand on most Linux distributions.

Installing Macports: https://youtu.be/N22Ic6ZRPXI

List Files

ls -lh

View Gzip Help

gzip -h

Compress tar Archive with Gzip

gzip -9 data.tar

Uncompress tar Archive with Gzip

gzip -d data.tar

Compress tar Archive with Gzip (keep original file)

gzip -9c data.tar > data.tar.gz

Compress tar Archive using 7zip

7z a data.tar.7z data.tar

In this video I go over the basics of using the tar (tape archive) utility on a Mac. This utility is also standard on most Linux distributions.

List Files in Directory

ls -lh

List Files Recursively

ls -R

Create tar Archive

tar -cvf data.tar data

Create tar Archive and gzip

tar -cvzf data.tar.gz data

Create tar Archive and bzip

tar -cvjf data.tar.bz2 data

Extract from tar Archive

tar -xvf data.tar

Download MPEG Streamclip here:
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html

In this video I use the command line interface to batch convert Appleworks/Clarisworks files to docx and xlsx files using LibreOffice.

Mac Example

find ./ -iname '*.cwk' -execdir /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless --convert-to xlsx --outdir ./ {} \;

Linux Example

find ./ -iname '*.cwk' -execdir soffice --headless --convert-to xlsx --outdir ./ {} \;

Change xlsx to docx for word processor files.