Working with Links, Archives, and Compression

1. Links
   • Create a file named file1.txt and write some text in it.
   • Create a hard link to file1.txt named hardlink1. Use ls -i to confirm they share the same inode number.
   • Modify hardlink1 and observe the changes in file1.txt.
   • Create a symbolic link to file1.txt named symlink1.
   • Delete file1.txt and try to access hardlink1 and symlink1. What’s the difference?
2. Absolute and Relative Filenames
   • Navigate to your home directory. Using relative paths, navigate to /etc directory.
   • Navigate back to your home directory using an absolute path.
3. Inodes
   • Create a new file, check its inode number using ls -i.
   • Create a hard link to this file and verify they share the same inode number.
4. Archives and Compression
   • Create a new directory, add a few text files to it.
   • Create a tar archive of this directory.
   • Extract the tar archive in a different directory.
   • Compress one of the text files using gzip.
   • Decompress the gzip file.
   • Compress the same text file using bzip2.
   • Decompress the bzip2 file.
5. Archiving and Compression Together
   • Create a compressed tar archive of the directory created earlier using gzip compression.
   • Extract the files from this compressed tar archive.
   • Repeat the steps using bzip2 compression.

Remember to replace the placeholder names with your own files and directories. Also, ensure you’re running these commands in a terminal.