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2 FAQ tagged "command tar"

• List the contents of a tar or tar.gz file

  Q. How do I list the contents of a tar or tar.gz file?
  A. GNU/tar is an archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a tarfile. You can create a tar file or compressed tar file tar. However sometime you need to list the contents of [...]

• Unpacking or uncompressing gz files under Linux and UNIX systems

  Q. How do I open or uncompress .gz extension file under Linux or UNIX computer?
  A. The .gz file extension are created using Gzip program which reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). gunzip / gzip is software application used for file compression. gzip is [...]

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