In this article, we will be reviewing and discussing various tar command examples, including how to create archive files using (tar, tar.gz, and tar.bz2) compression, how to extract archive files, extract a single file, view the content of the file, verify a file, add files or directories to the existing archive file, estimate the size […]
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The cpio archiving utility is used less than other tools like tar. However, it is still used for creating initramfs images on Linux and rpm packages. In this tutorial, we see how to create and extract cpio archives using the GNU cpio utility, and how t…
I compressed a directory having 37M size using both xz & zip. The zip file size was 31M, while the xz file was 16M after compression. Pretty impressive, isn’t it? Let us see how to compress the whole directory using xz and tar on Linux, macOS/*BSD/…
The Linux “tar” stands for tape archive, which is used by a large number of Linux/Unix system administrators to deal with tape drives backup. The tar command is used to rip a collection of files and directories into a highly compressed archive file commonly called tarball or tar, gzip and bzip in Linux. Here are […]
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Hello Linux Geeks, if you are looking for free command line backup tools on Linux systems then tar command is the solution for you. Tar command can create backup of your application, configurations files and folders of the system.
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A lot of the downloadable Linux/Unix files found on the internet are compressed using a tar.gz format. In this article you will learn how to extract tar.gz files in Linux systems through the command line using the tar command.
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