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How to Compress and Extract Files Using the tar Command on Linux

The tar command on Linux is used to create and extract TAR archive files. Run "tar -czvf archive-name.tar.gz /path/to/file” ...
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Learn How to Archive Files in Linux with TAR

Compressing files is a quick and easy way to archive and group files. There are many occasions where archives are useful, a driver download, file backup or Linux distro download. In this how-to we’ll ...
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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 archives with the ".tar" file ...
Macworld

Gooeynix puts interface on .tar compression

Digital Wake Enterprises has released Gooeynix, a Mac OS X utility that puts a graphical interface on manipulation of Unix “.tar” file archives. With Gooeynix you can more easily create archives — ...
Ars Technica

How to I compress a .tar.gz when it's not in .gz format?

I downloaded a XMMS skin I like, LinxDotCom.tar.gz<P> I download the file to my home directory, move it to /usr/share/xmms/Skins, and type in<P> tar xvfz LinuxDotCom.tar.gz<P> I get the following ...
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need advice on command line compression progs

Has anyone had experience using commandline RAR or 7-Zip in a batch file to make backups of several thousand files that will wind up being 3-5 files that are 300MB to 1GB in size? Will either work ...