A core part of the philosophy of Unix-like operating systems is for tools to be specialised – each tool should do one job and do it well. That means we need a way ...

You need to package up a bunch of files, send them somewhere, and do something with them at the destination. It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar ...

The TAR, or Tape Archive, file format was developed to simplify the process of storing and distributing multiple Unix operating system files. TAR files are uncompressed archives with the ".tar" file ...

I have a 2 Gig tar file, "myfile.tar", that normally takes about 2 minutes to completely untar all of it's contents. However, in a seperate scenario, if I try to extract just one file from "myfile.tar ...

The only thing that’s really hard about extracting from archives on Unix systems is remembering all of the commands and the required options. When you have ten or more possible archive types and could ...

This is stupid but I have no choice, what I have is single folder with 6 subdirs full of files. What I need to do create a tar file and slap this tar file into an RPM so when the RPM runs it takes the ...