What is the difference between gunzip and unzip? Tried to search but couldn't find anything relevant with this.
What's the difference between gunzip and unzip?
compression;zip
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 tartar -jcvf mydir.tar.bz2 mydir #bz2 and tar 