published by Wawuk Team on Mon, 04/18/2011 - 23:08
There are different types of archives – those are canonical (for tapes) tar archive files, there are tar files compressed with Z, gzip or bzip2, etc. There are also apt, deb, rpm, yum packages, but those do require full scale package manager, as opposed to simple extraction utility.
This short tip should give you instructions on extracting archived files from different archives, using Linux shell utility called ‘tar’.