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 ...

Want to try Linux but dread the command line? Don't worry - there's likely a GUI that can handle whatever you need.

I used tar many times and know the syntax. I want to make .tar file and than zip the file.<BR>I run this commad as ROOT:<BR>tar -cvf backup.tar stats/<BR>stats/<BR ...

Digital Wake Enterprises has released Gooeynix, a Mac OS X utility that puts a graphical interface on manipulation of Unix “.tar” file archives. With Gooeynix you can more easily create archives — ...