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

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.

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 ...

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.

The standard archival program for Unix-like operating systems including Linux and Mac OS X is Tar, so called because Tar was originally used to store backups on tape drives (Tape ARchive).

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

To use gzip to tar a file on Linux, first you need to install the gzip package if not already installed. This can be done by running the command sudo apt-get install gzip or sudo yum install gzip ...

When you work with Linux, FreeBSD or other Unix implementations, you’ll often see files that end in .tar and may even have other extensions after it. Even some experienced users don’t know the simple ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of zipping and unzipping files in Linux from both the command line and the GUI.

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.