With the tar command in Linux, you can easily archive and unarchive files/ directories. So learn about tar command syntax and examples.

Here, we use only the --create option with Tar. The lack of a destination causes Tar to send the archive data to standard output, which is then piped to the sdc compressor program.

In this article of the Linux Lexicon series, discover compress and extract files in Linux using the tar, gzip and gunzip command ...

RAR files are a popular format on Windows, allowing you to efficiently manage large files and share them across platforms. On Linux, though the TAR format is more commonly used, handling RAR files is ...

At some point in your Linux journey, you'll need to be able to compress and decompress a folder from the command line. Jack Wallen shows you how.

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 are instances where you'd have to extract Tar archives. In this article, let's look at how to extract or untar ZIP, TAR files on Linux.