4 ways to use the Linux tar command

Posted by bob on Aug 29, 2022 6:13 AM EDT
Opensource.com; By AmyJune Hineline
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When you have a lot of related files, it's sometimes easier to treat them as a single object rather than 3 or 20 or 100 unique files. There are fewer clicks involved, for instance, when you email one file compared to the mouse work required to email 30 separate files. This quandary was solved decades ago when programmers invented a way to create an archive, and so the tar command was born .

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