Personally i think, that Linux terminal is very useful application/tool whatever you name it. Yesterday i was restoring a MySQL database size of 5MB via MySQL Administrator application, and it crashed several times.
Update: There is a small update to this article, as if lets say some one does not have any root password yet, then how to create it 1st and then use the following commands. So that’s simple, open terminal and type the following.
1st of all we need Archive_Tar package to download and install. Download package from here, and run this command in terminal to install it.
So you are looking for a package which extract your files from zip, tar, tar.gz, gz etc. Zip can be done easily with some PHP functions but for tar and other Linux archives we need some library to work with and extract files.
Linux and Unix based distros have a command which can kill a process or application through terminal or simply can be done in Run applet(KDE) too.