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Rar is a very popular compression format used for different purposes. A lot of files like documents, image files, source code, etc. are compressed using rar compression format. In this tutorial, we will look at how to install rar tool for Ubuntu, Debian, Kali, and Mint and then list and extract files and directories. Install … Read more
tar and gz formats very popular in Linux, Unix and BSD world. A lot of files like source code, backup, configuration files etc. are compressed with this two formats. As a Linux system administrator we generally face with tar.gz extension files. In this tutorial we will look how to extract them easily. Tar Tar is very old and … Read more
One of the most important task of a database administrator is backing up and restoring databases. MySQL is a popular database server and provides tool named mysqldump for backup and restore operations. We will look different usage types of mysqldump in this tutorial. Syntax mysqldump [OPTIONS] database [tables] OR mysqldump [OPTIONS] –databases [OPTIONS] DB1 [DB2 … 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
Winzip, Winrar are popular packaging and compression tools for Windows operating system. Winzip was very popular in old times and this made the zip compression algorithm popular too. Currently, a lot of files and folders are compressed with zip algorithms too. Zip compression is supported by Minix, Atari, MacOS, Android too. We look at how … 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