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Linux tar command is used to create archives for data, files, and folders. The tar command name comes from tape archive . One of the most useful features of the tar command is compressing multiple files and folders into a single file which can be easily compressed with different tools like gz, bz, 7z etc. … Read more
Zip is a popular compression format and tool used to put files in a single and compressed file with the *.zip extension. The zip provides a lot of advantages like compression and saving space, easy and fast transfer, single file, etc. Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, CentOS, Mint, etc. provide the zip command for … Read more
The zip compressions are one of the most popular compression formats and algorithms. Even its name has used the term as compression and generally called zipping or unzipping. The zip files can be extracted by unzipping them. Even there are different tools the unzip command is the most popular and regular way to unzip a … Read more
Zip is a compression algorithm and format used to package given files and folders to use less disk space. The zip files have generally the *.zip extension and different tools that can be used to create, add, remove or extract zip files. But the most prolific tool and command is the zip command in Linux … Read more
Gzip is a popular compression algorithm and tool used to compress files to reduce file sizes? The gzip compression is very popular in Linux and Unix-based operating systems and distributions. The gzip files generally have the *.gz or *.z extension. In this tutorial, we explain how to extract or unzip the gzip files by using … Read more