How to open compressed files on a Linux OS?

[EGS]

Hello.

I was thinking to myself, how to open compressed files on a Linux OS?

I get a lot of files that are emailed to me, and most of them are ZIP and RAR files. Does Linux support 7 Zip? I see that the software has an unofficial release or unsupported version for Linux called p7zip - does this work?

I'd like to be able to compress and extract ZIP, RAR, TAR, and GZ files - what applications can do this on Linux?

Thank you.

[v0id]

tar!

Most distributions come with tar, and many distributions also have GUI for handling the program. It's run through the terminal, so it can sometimes be hard to use, if you don't know how to use it. Through GUI, you can handle it easily with right-clicks on files, etc.

[Tor]

You also probably have the unzip and unrar commands already installed on Linux.

unzip file.zip

Tar.gz

tar -zxvf file.tar.gz