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 ...

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.

How to Convert TAR to TGZ. 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 ...

tar cJf foo.tar.xz foo The c option tells the Tar program that we are creating an archive, while f tells it that we are storing the archive in a file using the given name.

It’s very simple. You should know this method doesn’t work with just .tar files. Instead, those files need to be compressed and end with either .gz, .xz, .zip, or .7z.