# Compress many files

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/compress-many-files/35250>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [February 27, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/compress-many-files/35250 "2020-02-27T19:09:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![programista](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/programista/32/5372_2.png) [@programista](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/programista)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/compress-many-files/35250/1 "2020-02-27T19:09:17Z")

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How to Compress many files (no data) in Julia ? Specialy text files, if I saved txt data to jld or hdf5 was many time bigger then txt. Today I hvae lot of files txt and I must compress it and still using it some time.  
Paul

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**Author:** ![tbeason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tbeason/32/15898_2.png) [@tbeason](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tbeason)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/compress-many-files/35250/2 "2020-02-27T19:25:16Z")

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Like you have lots of `.txt` files and you want to compress them? If it is a one-time thing, why bother with Julia to do it? I would just use gzip or 7zip at the command line.

There are Julia packages, though, if you want to try that out [GitHub - JuliaIO/GZip.jl: A Julia interface for gzip functions in zlib](https://github.com/JuliaIO/GZip.jl)

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**Author:** ![js135005](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/js135005/32/8219_2.png) [@js135005](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/js135005)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/compress-many-files/35250/3 "2020-02-27T20:19:30Z")

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Also check out the CodecZlib package if you want to handle gzip files. It is considerably more efficient than Gzip.jl for me.

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**Author:** ![programista](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/programista/32/5372_2.png) [@programista](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/programista)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/compress-many-files/35250/4 "2020-02-27T20:58:01Z")

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I have saved Array{String,1}: as txt, GZip Ignore the end-of-line character. Milions word read as one strig 🙂  
I am lookin for some to worsk with FILES, not with STRINGS  
Paul