OS X provides an easy option in the Finder's contextual menus for creating ZIP archives of Finder selections; however, the Finder does not have the option to quickly view a ZIP file's contents. Topher ...

An ISO file is an exact image of an optical disc such as a CD, DVD or Blu-ray disc. Windows 7 provides limited native support for the format but it does not provide the functionality to check the ...

You can examine the contents of compressed files on Linux systems without uncompressing the files or changing them in any way. This post explains the commands for doing that and the types of ...

I'm taking a web design class in college, and our assignment for this week is to create an online application that will take the contents of an uploaded text file (.txt, .css, etc) and save it into a ...

Windows 7's search box can quickly find apps and file names, but it can also search file contents. Make it so by enabling Windows to universally search the contents of all files, so you can find your ...

This tool finds text buried inside files, not just filenames.

Linux provides many commands for examining the contents of files including cat, more, head and tail, but that’s just a start. For one thing, even the most obvious commands have a lot more options than ...

Sometimes it can be useful to list the contents of one or more directories in a text file, for example by creating a file catalog. Windows does not allow you to perform this operation from File ...

In the Windows environment, CAB refers to Cabinet files – an archive file format for Microsoft Windows. The format supports data compression and embedded digital certificates used for maintaining ...

File compression on the Mac has been around since nearly as long has the line itself has. Here are our top picks for squeezing files down as small as they can go on macOS and iOS. In 1987 - just a few ...