When was the last time you had to create a zip file? Personally, I have to interact with those types of files all the time (either receiving or sending them to various clients, family, and friends).

When you "zip" a file, you'll compress its data and reduce how much space it takes up on your computer or phone.

Many Ubuntu Linux file archives have the "tar.gz" file extension and were created using the standard tar and gzip utilities. Although the name is similar, gzip does does not produce compressed ...

There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them. There ...

The zip command lets you compress files to preserve them or back them up, and you can require a password to extract the contents of a zip file. Zipping files allows ...

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How to easily update a tar file from the Linux file manager Your email has been sent If you’re a Linux admin, there’s a good chance you make use of tar to create backups of data or simply make files ...