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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
Linux provides different compression format with different tools. But tar is defacto standard for Linux to put given file and folders into single file. Than the compression comes. xz is very efficient compression algorithm and tool better than gzip and bzip in general. In this tutorial we will look how to compress and decompress or extract tar.xz file … Read more
Compression provides more disk space and network efficiency in IT systems. There are different types, levels, and performance compression algorithms. tar.gz is defacto standard for Linux systems for a long time. In this tutorial, we will look at different ways to unzip or uncompress tar.gz files. Unzip with tar Command tar is our old friend … Read more
Mongodb provides a lot of flexibilities to the application developers and system administrators. As we know mongodb is an nosql database server. Standard Sql database servers provides different tools to dump and backup given database. Mongodb provides mongodump tool for dump and backup operations. Check MongoDB Service Status First we should check the status of the … Read more
Windows modern file system NTFS provides some compression mechanisms to gain more space in disks and partitions. This compression operation is done mainly with compact command. This command do not directly compress the files as we stated in the start compression operation is done by NTFS file system in the file system level. So we do … 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