Compression
 

I need some help figuring out my mistakes. I know I am close, but I am getting confused. Any help is much appreciated :)

Compress the symbolic link /root/sfile using the compress utility and display the compression ratio4

# bzip2 –v /root/sfile unsure because it is a symbolic link


Compress the contents of the directory /root/dir1 using the gzip utility and display the compression ratio

# gzip –v /root/dir1 unsure because it is a directory (-r for directory, but -v to show compression ratios)


Decompress the file /root/letter.bz2

# uncompress –v /root/letter.bz2

You get an error if you try to compress a symlink, so you need to get to the real file:

You can have multiple options on a command:

Thank you! :)