I've run into a rash of tar.gz files on the internet today that are not actually gzipped. People seem to be just tarring things and then renaming them tar.gz! This of course makes it difficult to ...

OK, I've got about 30 .tar.gz files that I'd like to decompress into a directory. What's a good way to decompress all these files without doing 'tar xzvf file1.tar.gz && tar xzvf file2.tar.gz' etc.? I ...

ChromeOS is now more powerful for managing files, with new support for archive formats like 7z, iso, and tar — with more on the way. Last July, we were first to report that Google was working on a new ...

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 ...

Can you help me understand the different file compression formats? It seems like there are a ton out there (zip, gzip, bzip1, tar, rar, 7z, etc.), but what are the differences between them, and which ...