The Wolfram Language automatically handles all standard compression and archive formats.

Common Formats

"ZIP" — Windows ZIP archive (.zip)

"GZIP" — Unix gzip compression (.gz)

"TAR" — Unix tar archive (.tar)

"BZIP2" — bzip2 compression format (.bz2)

Encoding Formats

"Base64" — Base64 ASCII encoding

"UUE" — Unix uuencode format (.uue, .enc)

Serialization Formats

"WXF" — binary-serialized Wolfram Language expressions (.wxf)

"WDX" — Wolfram optimized data exchange format (.wdx)

"MX"— Wolfram Language serialized package (.mx)

"BSON"  ▪  "UBJSON"

Common Elements

"Files" — names of available files

"Elements" — all available elements

Creating & Extracting Archives

CreateArchive — create an archive file from a directory of files

ExtractArchive — extract a directory of files from an archive file

FileHash — compute MD5 and other hash codes for files