If you want to store a big folder as a single file, so it could be easily uploaded somewhere or shared with someone, you can create a simple zip archive from it. To avoid wasting a time and resources on compression and decompression, this zip archive can be created without compression. In this short note […]
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HowTo: Create a Password Protected ZIP File in Linux
This is a small note that describes how to encrypt and decrypt a ZIP file from the Linux command line. I’ll show how to create a password protected ZIP archive from one or several unprotected files or folders. Warning! The standard ZIP encryption is very weak and could be cracked easily. Password Protected ZIP File […]
HowTo: Extract Archives [tar|gz|bz2|rar|zip|7z|tbz2|tgz|Z]
A small note about how to unpack and uncompress the most popular types of archives from the Linux command line. Unpack [tar|tar.gz|tgz|tar.bz2|tbz2] Files in Linux Use the following commands to extract TAR archives compressed with GZIP and BZIP2: $ tar xvf file.tar $ tar xvzf file.tar.gz $ tar xvzf file.tar.tgz $ tar xvjf file.tar.bz2 $ […]
HowTo: Download and Extract (untar) TAR Archive with One Command
Use one of the following commands to download and extract (untar) [tar], [tar.gz] or [tar.bz2] files “on fly”, without saving archive themselves. No temporary files; No Extra output; Minimal file space and memory usage. The following methods are most fast and compact for downloading and unpacking archives. Download and Extract Archives with WGET $ wget […]
Untar Tar.gz – Linux Tar Command – HowTo: Extract Tar File
Most of the Linux files that can be downloaded from the Internet are compressed with a tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 compression formats and it is important to know how to extract such files. The following article will help you to extract (unpack) and uncompress (untar) – tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 files from the Linux command […]