The tar command on Linux is used to create and extract TAR archive files. Run "tar -czvf archive-name.tar.gz /path/to/file” in the Terminal to compress a file or folder. To extract an archive to the ...

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 ...

using tar to extract files off tape, but they get extracted into their archived directory structure. how do i extract them so that all files are extracted into the local drive without being put into ...