One of the most common programs on Linux systems for packaging files is the venerable tar. tar is short for tape archive, and originally, it would archive your files to a tape device. Now, you're more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a welcome trend, Microsoft is slowly integrating popular Linux applications and services directly into Windows. First we had the introduction of the Windows Subsystem for Linux, which allows you to ...