The Tar word derived from its name “Tape ARchive”, it was designed to store files on magnetic tape. The tar command is used to make tar archives by encapsulating the files or directories. It can be use to extract tar files, add new files and to list the files included in the archive. In...
This tutorial explains how to extract (or unzip) tar.bz2 and tbz2 archives using the tar command. The tar command is used to make and extract tar archives. Compression programs such as gzip, bzip2, lzip, lzma, lzop, xz and compress are supporting by it. Extract tar.bz2 File# By default the tar utility comes pre-installed in...
In this article, we will show you how to extract (or unzip) tar.gz and tgz archives. Now a days in the open-source world .zip and .tar.gz files used on a regular basis. Most of Open-source packages are generally available to download in .tar.gz and .zip formats. A group of files converted into a archive...