I used to download and unzip files with a browser and file manager until I realized I could do it all from the terminal, without clicking or switching windows. I now use just six commands all the time ...

The easiest way to extract the content of compressed files (and compressed archives) on Linux is to prepare a script that both recognizes files by type and uses the proper commands for extracting ...

There are quite a few interesting things that you can do with "zip" commands other than compress and uncompress files. Here are some other zip options and how they can help. Some of us have been ...

The tar command on Linux is used to create and extract TAR archive files. Run "tar -czvf archive-name.tar.gz /path/to/file” in the Terminal to compress a file or ...

Click the "Dash" icon. Type "terminal" (without quotes) in the search box. Click the "Terminal" application icon. Navigate to the folder containing the RAR archive you want to extract files from using ...