tar Archive Data Formats

tar (from Tape ARchive) is an archive file format. File are produced by the Unix command tar and were standardized by POSIX.1-1998 and later POSIX.1-2001. It is used to collate collections of files into one larger file, while preserving file system information.

• Format of tar Archives - Description of the tar format.
• Wikipedia: Tar (file format) - Encyclopedia article about the archive file format.
• GNU tar - Software to create tar archives. Introduction, download, and tar manual. [GNU data formats GPL]

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