Previously, we noted how you could use a utility such as OpenUp to decompress the pax.gz file in an Installer document, thus allowing you to see everything that gets installed before you actually ...

I used to download and unzip files with a browser and file manager until I realized I could do it all from the terminal, without clicking or switching windows. I now use just six commands all the time ...

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 ...

Note that you have to order the file names in a way that ensures that the files with double extensions (like .tar.gz) are listed before their single extension counterparts (like .gz) so that you’re ...

The easiest way to extract the content of compressed files (and compressed archives) on Linux is to prepare a script that both recognizes files by type and uses the proper commands for extracting ...