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How To Decompress or Extract tar.xz In Linux?

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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

Gzip Command Tutorial For Linux

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Gzip is actually a file format which is a compressed file. There is also a tool named gzip which is used to compress and decompress files. Gzip is developed in 1992. It use DEFLATE algorithm with LZ77 and Huffman coding. gzip Command Help gzip command provides different options. These options and help information can be … Read more