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HowTo: Linux Install LibreOffice

by on October 1, 2010 · 6 comments

How do I install newly released LibreOffice under Debian, Ubuntu or Fedora Linux?

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Creating A tar File in Linux Via Command Line Options

by on December 15, 2007 · 1 comment

How do I create a tar file under Linux using command line options?

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Exclude Certain Files When Creating A Tarball Using Tar Command

by on October 18, 2006 · 5 comments

How can I keep out certain files when creating a tarball? For example:

/home/me/file1
/home/me/dir1
/home/me/dir2
/home/me/abc
/home/me/xyz

How do I execute zyz and abc file while using a tar command?

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List the contents of a tar or tar.gz file

by on September 28, 2006 · 18 comments

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 a tar [...]

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Unpacking or uncompressing gz files under Linux and UNIX systems

by on May 1, 2006 · 1 comment

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 short for GNU zip; the program [...]

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Howto: Use tar Command Through Network Over SSH Session

by on February 16, 2006 · 35 comments

How do I use tar command over secure ssh session?

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