Linux provides gtar command in order to compress and create tar files. If we are trying to tar a directory and within this directory, there will be a lot of sub-directories and files. We need to tar this directory with tar format. We can use gtar which is an alias...
.gz of gzip is very popular compression format used in Linux echo system. It is old compression algorithm but provides efficiency and speed during compression and decompression operations. Compression is very efficient file types like documents, text, some images etc. gzip compression algorithm also used in HTTP protocol to reduce...
Compression provides more disk space and network efficiency in IT systems. There are different type, level, and performance compression algorithms. tar.gz is de facto 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...
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...
