What’s the difference between gunzip and unzip

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What is the difference between gunzip and unzip? Tried to search but couldn't find anything relevant with this.

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unzip decompress zip algorithm same *.zip files and gunzip decompress gz algorithm that same *.gz files. If you migrated from windows, You have many compression algorithm in UNIX world such as *.7z , *.gz , *.bz2 and so on. Also you can compress file which already archived with tar command: such as :

tar -zcvf mydir.tar.gz mydir #gz and tar
tar -jcvf mydir.tar.bz2 mydir #bz2 and tar 
tar -Jcvf mydir.tar.xz mydir #xz and tar
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