At some point in your Linux journey, you'll need to be able to compress and decompress a folder from the command line. Jack Wallen shows you how.

This is particularly useful when you want to compress multiple directories and their contents at once . Conclusion Mastering the Linux zip command is a useful skill for anyone working with Unix-based ...

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.

Linux systems use a variety of file formats, and each format can experience various issues. Tar.gz files are among the most troublesome file formats and often create installation issues for users. If ...

The principle is to make a single archive containing all files on the hard disk to make a backup. Under Linux, it is possible to access all the files and modify them even if they are in use. It is ...