gzip

Compress/uncompress files with gzip compression (LZ77). More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/manual/gzip.html.

gzip file.ext

gzip -d file.ext.gz

gzip --keep file.ext

gzip -c file.ext > compressed_file.ext.gz

gzip -c -d file.ext.gz > uncompressed_file.ext

gzip -9 -c file.ext > compressed_file.ext.gz