Downloading tar.gz files

Asked 4 years, 7 months ago. Active 2 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 41k times. Improve this question. Shane Shane 2 2 gold badges 5 5 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. Yes, indeed. Sorry for lack of clarity. In case this helps others, I got this error when trying to do this on an archive I downloaded via curl.

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Next you should read. SysAdmin Web Servers. A list of all the important Linux commands in one place. Find the command you need, whenever you need it or Zip files are ubiquitously used on all operating system, including Linux.

One such file format is tar. TAR stands for tarball which contains several files enclosed in a single file. This will further help in keeping track of all the files as it contains all in one.

The files named are of extension tar. They are nowadays also used in Windows. To open tar.