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Linux ar command is used to create, modify, and extract archives. ar is the short form and first two letters of the archive. ar is provided by most of the Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Kali, Mint, CentOS, Fedora, Red Hat, and BSD variants. Ar Is Archiving Not Compression Archiving is just putting multiple files … Read more
7zip is a popular tool and compression format. 7zip supports a wide range of platforms and operations systems like Windows, Linux, BSD, macOS, etc. Syntax We will use following syntax for 7z command. Help First before starting using the 7z command we can get usage and help information by using -h option. We can see … Read more
Logrotate main purpose is to easy administrator of Linux logs. It is very talented tool it can Automatic rotation Compression Removal Mailing Logs Logrotate can be configured and run accordingly with configuration files. We will look all of them in this tutorial in detail. Configuration File Logrotate generally works as a daemon. The logrotate binary … Read more
cpio is general file archiver used in Linux, Unix and BSD systems. It is created as a tape archive tool but gained new features along with development. Cpio has its own compression format and extension. Creating Archive With Cpio We can create an archive file with cpio by getting find output. find . -depth -print … Read more
Old days of Unix to make backups into tape archives tar utility was used. The days past and Linux become popular in UNIX world. But the popularity of tar is never ended. tar is used compress and extract files. We will look usage examples of tar in this tutorial. Tar command is similar to the … Read more