Compressing files on Linux
Posted 4th February 2026
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A simple guide to compressing (zipping) and extracting (unzipping) files on the Linux command line.
Unzip .tar.gz files in Windows
Posted 24th November 2016
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Use this one-liner in the command prompt to extract the contents of .tar.gz files on Microsoft Windows machines.
Perl script to unzip files
Posted 9th November 2016
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A Perl script that will unzip files by extracting contents and saving them to a new directory named after the source zip file.