Linux 101: How to compress a folder from the command line with tar Your email has been sent At some point in your Linux journey, you'll need to be able to compress and decompress a folder from the ...

I have a 2 Gig tar file, "myfile.tar", that normally takes about 2 minutes to completely untar all of it's contents. However, in a seperate scenario, if I try to extract just one file from "myfile.tar ...