What is tar You may have come across the gzip and bzip2 commands which are used for compressing individual files. But if you want to compress a whole directory, then the command you need to use is tar. The tar command requires you to declare a number of options for […]Read more »
## File compression. ## Commands covered in this article gzip # A file compression utility bzip2 # A file compression utility tar # A tool that can <l=>archive a whole directory<l=> and convert it into a single file. star #.secure tar. […]Read more »