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tar command examples

Install Tar Command in CentOS

How to Install tar in CentOS, RHEL, and Fedora

tar is a widely used command-line-based utility for combining a bunch of files and/or directories into one archive file, commonly

Compress and Decompress bz2 File Using Bzip2

How to Compress and Decompress a .bz2 File in Linux

To compress a file(s), is to significantly decrease the size of the file(s) by encoding data in the file(s) using

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