In the example below, I'm going to zip up a directory that includes images in both PNG and PSD file formats. However, I want to exclude the PSDs because they are huge! zip -r my-compressed-dir-without-psd.zip directory-to-zip -x '*.psd'

Uncompress a bz2 file using tar command tar --use-compress-program bzip2 -xvf your-file-to-uncompress.tar.bz2 @source http://www.kde.gr.jp/help/doc/kdebase/doc/khelpcenter/faq/HTML/bzip2.html...

import zlib regular_string = 'this is my string' compressed_string = zlib.compress(regular_string) decompressed_string = zlib.decompress(compressed_string) print compressed_string print decompressed_string