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Determine whether a particular file is compressed

How to know in Linux whether a particular file is compressed or not using a command?
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Is it possible to compress a very large file (~30 GB) using gzip?

Is it possible to compress a very large file (~30 GB) using gzip? If so, what commands, switches, and options should I use? Or is there another program (preferably one commonly available on Ubuntu ...
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Is there a command to list the compressed file sizes for files within a .zip file?

I'd like to see the absolute size in bytes of each file that has been compressed into single zip file. Having read the zip man page, I'm not sure that that utility can do it. This is on Mac OS X. ...