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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook Delve into the practical world of the Raspberry Pi Zero

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463852
Length 422 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Edward Snajder Edward Snajder
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Kick-Start Your Raspberry Pi Zero FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Physical and Wireless Connections 3. Programming with Linux 4. Programming with Python 5. Getting Your Hands Dirty Using the GPIO Header 6. Controlling the LEDs and Displays 7. Controlling the Hardware 8. Taking Digital Inputs to the Raspberry Pi Zero 9. Interfacing Sensors with the Raspberry Pi Zero 10. Cooking up Projects to Amaze the World!

Extracting a zipped file and zipping it back


Another way to reduce your overall file size footprint is by using techniques for archiving and compressing one or many files into a single, relatively small file. There are several ways to do this, which we will explore in this recipe.

Getting ready

Stay in the terminal, return to being the pi user, and go to your /home/pi/share/ch3 directory. If you followed the recipe on using wget, you should have a Star Trek ZIP file in there named sstsrc.zip. You can find it using the ls command. If you didn't download it before, first make sure you have zip installed, and then grab your zip file using the commands below:

sudo apt-get install zip

    cd /home/pi/share/ch3/


wget http://www.almy.us/files/sstsrc.zip

How to do it...

The sstsrc.zip file is known as a source file; it contains the code to compile a program on any machine. We're going to unzip this file and compile it to run on our Raspberry Pi Zero! Then, we are going to take our compiled code...

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