File Extension

TAR File Format

Tape Archive

TAR stands for Tape Archive

This was last updated in March 2012
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  • tarball (tar archive)

    - Tarball is a jargon term for a tar archive - a group of files collected together as one.

  • tar (Tape ARchive)

    - Tar (for "Tape ARchive") is a UNIX shell command that creates a single file called an "archive" from a number of specified files or extracts the files from such an archive.

  • archive

    - An archive is a collection of computer files that have been packaged together for backup, to transport to some other location, for saving away from the computer so that more hard disk storage can b...

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