Tag: tar

All the articles with the tag "tar".

• Linux CLI Tarball extraction

  27 May, 2013

  Extract tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar.xz, and zip files from the command line — the flags, the gotchas, and extracting to a specific directory.

• Archive & Compression utilities

  12 Feb, 2012

  tar, gzip, bzip2, xz, zip — demystified. When to use each compression tool, speed vs ratio trade-offs, and the flags you'll actually need.