The principle is to make a single archive containing all files on the hard disk to make a backup. Under Linux, it is possible to access all the files and modify them even if they are in use. It is ...

Linux systems use a variety of file formats, and each format can experience various issues. Tar.gz files are among the most troublesome file formats and often create installation issues for users. If ...

$ tar -cvf PDFs.tar *.pdf Note that it’s the z in that list of options that causes the file to be compressed or “zipped”. The c specifies that you are creating the file and the v (verbose) indicates ...

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. The Linux command line is an incredibly powerful tool.

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 ...