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Description
This article provides an overview of the Compression functions available in RPA. Compression functions allow you to create, extract, and inspect ZIP, TAR, and GZIP archives for file packaging, distribution, and storage optimization.
Key concepts
- ZIP – widely-used archive format supporting multiple files and compression methods
- TAR – Unix archive format, often combined with gzip (.tar.gz) for compression
- GZIP – single-file compression format, commonly used with TAR
Available Compression Functions
- Create ZIP: Creates a new ZIP archive from files or directories.
- Extract ZIP: Extracts files from a ZIP archive.
- List ZIP: Lists the contents of a ZIP archive.
- Add to ZIP: Adds a file to an existing ZIP archive.
- Create TAR: Creates a new TAR archive.
- Extract TAR: Extracts files from a TAR archive.
- List TAR: Lists the contents of a TAR archive.
- Gzip compress: Compresses a single file using gzip.
- Gzip decompress: Decompresses a gzip file.