Previously, we noted how you could use a utility such as OpenUp to decompress the pax.gz file in an Installer document, thus allowing you to see everything that gets installed before you actually ...

The easiest way to extract the content of compressed files (and compressed archives) on Linux is to prepare a script that both recognizes files by type and uses the proper commands for extracting ...

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 ...

The only thing that’s really hard about extracting from archives on Unix systems is remembering all of the commands and the required options. When you have ten or more possible archive types and could ...

I am sure most of you reading this are download freaks. Many of you would often download a movie or a song or an ebook. And more often than not, the stuff you download will be in compressed form, like ...