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 ...

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 ...

In the last two columns (Part 1, Part 2), we contrasted a number of compression tools that you might use to free up disk space on your systems. In comparing compression utilities, the most important ...

ChromeOS is now more powerful for managing files, with new support for archive formats like 7z, iso, and tar — with more on the way. Last July, we were first to report that Google was working on a new ...