Project: ARCHIVE HANDLING

A project for CSCS1730 UNIX/Linux Fundamentals by YOUR NAME OR GROUPMEMBER NAMES during the SEMESTER YEAR.

This project was begun on DATE and is anticipated to take X AMOUNT OF TIME. (Upon completion you can correct this with the actual length).

To demonstrate familiarity with archiving and compression tools.

In order to successfully accomplish/perform this project, the listed resources/experiences need to be consulted/achieved:

• ability to use the command-line
• familiarity with looking up information and documentation
• understanding what files are

State the idea or purpose of the project. What are you attempting to pursue?

Upon approval, you'll want to fill this section out with more detailed background information. DO NOT JUST PROVIDE A LINK.

Providing any links to original source material, such as from a project page, is a good idea.

You'll want to give a general overview of what is going to be accomplished (for example, if your project is about installing a web server, do a little write-up on web servers. What is it, why do we need one, how does it work, etc.)

In /var/public/unix/archives are two files: archive1.tar.gz and archive2.zip

Your mission is to:

• make a copy of them to your home directory
• figure out how to properly extract each one
• view the contents
• create a new archive containing the contents of both extracted original archives
• compress your new archive in bzip2 format
• document the entire process to clearly demonstrate this (ie showing command-lines) on your project document

State and justify the attributes you'd like to receive upon successful approval and completion of this project.

• commands: using various archiving and compression commands
• files & directories: understanding files and directories

Describe the process you took to accomplish this project here,

Comments/thoughts generated through performing the project, observations made, analysis rendered, conclusions wrought. What did you learn from doing this project?

In performing this project, the following resources were referenced:

• URL1
• URL2
• URL3 (provides useful information on topic)
• URL4

Generally, state where you got informative and useful information to help you accomplish this project when you originally worked on it (from Google, other wiki documents on the Lab46 wiki, etc.)