http://www.keithdmitchell.com Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:53:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2008/12/23/using-tar-command-to-compress-files/ http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2008/12/23/using-tar-command-to-compress-files/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:16:25 +0000 keith http://www.keithdmitchell.com/?p=122 Using tar is probably one of the most used tools on a linux system. This function is exactly like a zip function. Basically this will allow you to compress and or extract files / directories. To compress a directory you would type; tar -cvzf directory name. Basically you told tar to do create the file, [...]]]> http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2008/12/23/using-tar-command-to-compress-files/feed/ 0