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 ...

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 ...

In this post, we will show you how to create 7z or TAR files from Files Explorer on a Windows 11 PC. With an earlier update, Windows 11 received a new feature that allowed users to open and extract 7z ...

Extracting .tar.gz files on Windows 10 is not a daunting task. You don’t need extensive technical skills to get the job done. In this article, we’ll show you a simple and straightforward method to ...

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 ...

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 ...