I used to download and unzip files with a browser and file manager until I realized I could do it all from the terminal, without clicking or switching windows. I now use just six commands all the time ...

The easiest way to extract the content of compressed files (and compressed archives) on Linux is to prepare a script that both recognizes files by type and uses the proper commands for extracting ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Most people are probably pretty familiar with creating, sending or receiving Zip files. Zip takes ...

One of the most common programs on Linux systems for packaging files is the venerable tar. tar is short for tape archive, and originally, it would archive your files to a tape device. Now, you're more ...

I have a 2 Gig tar file, "myfile.tar", that normally takes about 2 minutes to completely untar all of it's contents. However, in a seperate scenario, if I try to extract just one file from "myfile.tar ...

I don't have much experience in this area, but I have some data that was sent to me that was archived as a tar file on a DDS2 tape from a SCO-UNIX box. I have a DDS4 tape drive and want to move the ...