Compressing files is a quick and easy way to archive and group files. There are many occasions where archives are useful, a driver download, file backup or Linux distro download. In this how-to we’ll ...

You probably know that you can quickly create a compressed file archive in Finder by selecting the files to be compressed, Control-clicking, and selecting Compress number Items from the contextual ...

if the file is a tar archive of a bootable system image of some kind, you should do the following:<br><br>1. Run the Terminal application<br>2. Use the cd command to get to the directory where the tar ...

Tar is a common file format for archives in Linux- and Unix-based operating systems. These types of files are typically used to back up files and directories or to transfer files and programs over a ...

There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them. There ...

I used tar many times and know the syntax. I want to make .tar file and than zip the file.<BR>I run this commad as ROOT:<BR>tar -cvf backup.tar stats/<BR>stats/<BR ...

ChromeOS is now more powerful for managing files, with new support for archive formats like 7z, iso, and tar — with more on the way. Last July, we were first to report that Google was working on a new ...