How to easily update a tar file from the Linux file manager Your email has been sent If you’re a Linux admin, there’s a good chance you make use of tar to create backups of data or simply make files ...

The tar command on Linux is used to create and extract TAR archive files. Run "tar -czvf archive-name.tar.gz /path/to/file” in the Terminal to compress a file or ...

Compressing files is a quick and easy way to archive and group files. There are many occasions where archives are useful, a driver download, file backup or Linux distro download. In this how-to we’ll ...

In this step-by-step guide from Jack Wallen, learn how to access and modify the Linux hosts file to control the mapping of hostnames to IP addresses. At some point in your career as a developer, ...

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 ...

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