Compress or decompress files in Linux environments

Introduction In some circunstances it’s not easy to know the commands which exist to compress or decompress files in Linux (and Unix) environments. In this posts, I have wrote all the commands I have used for this. File Types TAR files Pack: tar -cvf file.tar file1 file2 file3 Unpack: tar -xvf file.tar See content: tar -tf file.tar GZ files Compress: gzip -9 file Decompress: gzip -d file BZ2 files Compress: bzip2 file Decompress: bzip -d file....

November 15, 2022 Â· 1 min Â· Yvoictra

How to resolve LAN hostnames with Ubuntu

By default, Ubuntu desktop installation will provide DNS resolving configured, however in Ubuntu server installation avahi-daemon (or mdnsresponder) is needed to be installed to provide local LAN DNS resolution. In my case, i found the error “Temporary failure in name resolution” when I tried to resolve a machine of my LAN from Ubuntu. yvoictra@zoar:~$ ping erie.local ping: erie.local: Temporary failure in name resolution To solve this issue, there is no need to install a DNS server in the LAN....

April 19, 2020 Â· 2 min Â· Yvoictra