The TAR, or Tape Archive, file format was developed to simplify the process of storing and distributing multiple Unix operating system files. TAR files are uncompressed archives with the ".tar" file ...

OK, I've got about 30 .tar.gz files that I'd like to decompress into a directory. What's a good way to decompress all these files without doing 'tar xzvf file1.tar.gz && tar xzvf file2.tar.gz' etc.? I ...

There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them. There ...

February 28, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google This is a good question, as it seems like every other file you download nowadays is in a different compression ...

The only thing that’s really hard about extracting from archives on Unix systems is remembering all of the commands and the required options. When you have ten or more possible archive types and could ...

Linux 101: How to compress a folder from the command line with tar Your email has been sent At some point in your Linux journey, you'll need to be able to compress and decompress a folder from the ...

if the file is a tar archive of a bootable system image of some kind, you should do the following:<br><br>1. Run the Terminal application<br>2. Use the cd command to get to the directory where the tar ...