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.

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

This command will create a tar file of the folder and its subfolders. The c option stands for create, v stands for verbose, and f stands for file. The following command can be used to extract the ...

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

Tar.gz is the most common file archive format in computers today. Learn how you can unzip tar.gz files with the built-in tools in Linux.

Linux 101: How to create a zip file in Linux Jack Wallen walks you through the process of zipping and unzipping files in Linux from both the command line and the GUI.

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.

Tar is one most popular archiving utility for Linux. Tar is part of the util-Linux package and comes by default with almost all major Linux distribution. When you download some tar file which has ...

Did you know that Linux makes it easy to create and use hidden files, which means you can easily tuck important documents away from plain sight? Here's how to manage those files.