I am running ubuntu 10.04. I am new to linux, and I've gotten most things that I need working, however I am having trouble installing tar.gz files. A .tar.gz is not an installer type, it is just an ...

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 used to download and unzip files with a browser and file manager until I realized I could do it all from the terminal, without clicking or switching windows. I now use just six commands all the time ...

I have Stuffit Expander set to expand archived and compressed files files, which it does. And 'continue to expand' which it also does. I also have it set to NOT delete after expanding, but it seems to ...

pax is one of the lesser known utilities in a typical Linux installation. That's too bad, because pax has a very good feature set, and its command-line options are easy to understand and remember. pax ...

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As a file compression format, the 'RAR format', which has a higher compression rate than 'ZIP' and is one of the features that the file size can be reduced, is finally supported natively on Windows, ...