you are on lan party or on the road and quickly want to transfer a file or directory to another computer. Both computer owners are just to lazy to setup something like ftp, smb, nfs.
A lot of the downloadable Linux or Unix files found on the internet are compressed using a tar or tar.gz compression format. So, knowing how to open or untar these compressed files becomes very important. In the following examples, we will explain how to untar both popular formats and how to extract the contents to [...]
A collection of useful scripts, among them a filter to translate MTF/BKF backup streams from aNoTher operating system, to the TAR archves used by the rest of the world.
how to backup your linux system using bash, tar and netcat. alternatives in the comments
i recently ran into the problem of not having enough hard drive space
on my slackware linux laptop, but was lucky enough to have a much
bigger drive sitting arou