Project 6: Creating and Extracting Compressed Files
Since I have been talking about file storage, it seems only fitting to wrap things up in this chapter by teaching you how to create and extract compressed files. In the Windows world, these are generally referred to as Zip files, while in the Linux world, tarball is the operative name. The Linux name, in case you're wondering, comes from the application that is used to create the archive for such files, Tar.
Anyway, to get some of the hands-on stuff down, we'll be creating a Windows/Linux/Mac–friendly Zip file, and then extracting it. We can get down to business by opening a Nautilus window and creating a couple of dummy files to work with. You can do this by going to the Nautilus File menu and ...
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