Working with TAR Archives in Linux Command Prompt
· 2 minutes de lecture
The TAR format is extremely popular in the Linux world and is the de facto data archiving standard. It can’t compress files by itself but perfectly cooperates with such compression utilities as gzip or bzip2. Therefore, most archives packed with this format that you can find on the web will look as archive_name.tar.gz.
If you also work with ZIP or RAR archives, check out our guides on handling them in the Linux command line.