How to Create and Manage Archive Files in Linux

Posted by bob on Jan 29, 2021 11:24 PM EDT
Linux.com; By Matt Zand and Kevin Downs
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n a nutshell, an archive is a single file that contains a collection of other files and/or directories. Archive files are typically used for a transfer (locally or over the internet) or make a backup copy of a collection of files and directories.... This tutorial shows how to use tar to create an archive, list the contents of an archive, and extract the files from an archive.

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