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This is a roadmap page, intended to provide an annotated catalog or guide to other pages.
Local pages
- ArcCompTools .. an outline of a KPLUG mini presentation that gives some brieg general background on archiving and compression, and then discusses some Linux gui tools.
- http://www.kernel-panic.org/Members/jgsack/pages/TarballsXH2 .. an express howto for the most common commandline tar.gz (or tgz) operations.
Other links
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archive_formats .. excellent starting point article
- http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/coding/gzrt/gzrt.html The gzip Recovery Toolkit .. unreviewed, but sounds interesting
Subtopics needing elaboration
- zip encryption .. weak, use gpg for strong
- archive-aware commandline tools (many)
- cat, cmp, diff, [e]?grep, less, ..
- other tools .. (content) info, ..
..what else?..
Linux Administrator
General Meeting September 11, 2008