Tar is a common file format for archives in Linux- and Unix-based operating systems. These types of files are typically used to back up files and directories or to transfer files and programs over a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sure, using the Linux command line is optional. But these are commands I rely on every day, and you can benefit from them, too.

In this how-to, we’ll look at various ways of using the find command to help us find files and directories across the Linux filesystem. Sometimes we misplace a file or directory and we can spend ...

Extracting .tar.gz files on Windows 10 is not a daunting task. You don’t need extensive technical skills to get the job done. In this article, we’ll show you a simple and straightforward method to ...