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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 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 of the tar command to … 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
As a systems administrator I generally use package managers to install software. But in some situations I can not use package manager because provided software version is old or do not compatible. In this situations how can I install new software from source code by compiling. Software source code can be get in different forms … 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
Linux is a command-based operating system. Most of the things are done in the command-line environment bash. In this tutorial, we will look at popular and useful commands used by Linux system administrators and users. You can access detailed tutorials simply clicking links below. tr tr command is used to translate or delete characters in the … 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