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 ...

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 ...

sudo tar -czf "backup.tar.gz" --absolute-names --warning='no-file-removed' --warning='no-file-changed' --warning='no-file-ignored' --exclude="/REDACTED/backup.tar.gz ...

There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them. There ...