Previously, we noted how you could use a utility such as OpenUp to decompress the pax.gz file in an Installer document, thus allowing you to see everything that gets installed before you actually ...

I've got a 16 gig file and less than 5 gigs free. If I were to gzip it, would I run out of disk space in the process? I know that when used without any extra options, gzip overwrites the original file ...

I am trying to use some data, but would prefer to store it in a compressed manner and then access it via a named pipe that is being decompressed to. E.g.: However, this does not complete. I don't ...

The TAR, or Tape Archive, file format was developed to simplify the process of storing and distributing multiple Unix operating system files. TAR files are uncompressed archives with the ".tar" file ...

There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them. There ...