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| ## Auto-converted by kwiki2moinmoin v2005-10-07 In computing, the '''tar file format''' is a type of archive file format: the Tape ["ARchive"] format. These files are produced by the ["Unix"] command tar and were standardized by POSIX.1-1998 and later POSIX.1-2001. |
In computing, the '''tar file format''' is a type of archive file format: the *T*ape *AR*chive format. These files are produced by the ["Unix"] command tar and were standardized by POSIX.1-1998 and later POSIX.1-2001. |
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| It is used widely to archive and unarchive files, which means to accumulate a large collection of files into a single archive file (packer), while preserving FileSystem information such as user and group permissions, dates, and ["directory"] structures. | It is used widely to archive and unarchive files, which means to accumulate a large collection of files into a single archive file (packer), while preserving FileSystem information such as user and group permissions, dates, and ["directory"] structures. |
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| '''Commonly a tar file is referred to as a tarball''' . | '''Commonly a tar file is referred to as a tarball . Tarballs are ["source"] code''', not binary ["image"] DebianPackage s. DebianPackage s can be downloaded and installed using AptGet . |
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| ==Filename extension *.tar , for tar file. *.tar.gz or .tgz (only when compressed by gzip) *.tar.bz2 or .tbz (only when compressed by bzip2) |
=== Filename extension === * .tar , for tar file. * .tar.gz or .tgz (only when compressed by gzip) * .tar.bz2 or .tbz (only when compressed by bzip2) === MIME-Type === * application/x-tar == Installation of tar.gz Files == After unpacking and uncompressing as ["root"] with |
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| ==[MIME]-Type *application/x-tar |
. tar -zxvf nameof.tar.gz (this command above is the equivalent of unzip in windows) |
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| the installation procedure is the standard GNU one: | |
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| $ ./configure | |
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| See: {Wikipedia:tarball} | $ ["make"] $ make install You usually can do configure and make as a regular user and make install as root See also: * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tarball Wikipedia article about tarball]. * *.["dsc"] (another source code file). * FileRoller in DebianGnome, that can uncompress and unpack files. ---- {i} CategoryRedundant: ["targz"] |
In computing, the tar file format is a type of archive file format: the *T*ape *AR*chive format. These files are produced by the ["Unix"] command tar and were standardized by POSIX.1-1998 and later POSIX.1-2001.
It is used widely to archive and unarchive files, which means to accumulate a large collection of files into a single archive file (packer), while preserving FileSystem information such as user and group permissions, dates, and ["directory"] structures.
Commonly a tar file is referred to as a tarball . Tarballs are ["source"] code, not binary ["image"] DebianPackage s. DebianPackage s can be downloaded and installed using ?AptGet .
In the Unix philosophy of "one job, one program", it does not support compression directly. If you then want to compress your archive, you use a separate program that is specialised in compression. tar is most commonly used in tandem with an external compression utility such as ["gzip"] or ["bzip2"], since it has no built in data compression facilities. These compression utilities generally only compress a single file, hence the pairing with tar, which can produce a single file from many files.
Filename extension
- .tar , for tar file.
- .tar.gz or .tgz (only when compressed by gzip)
- .tar.bz2 or .tbz (only when compressed by bzip2)
MIME-Type
- application/x-tar
Installation of tar.gz Files
After unpacking and uncompressing as ["root"] with
- tar -zxvf nameof.tar.gz
(this command above is the equivalent of unzip in windows)
the installation procedure is the standard GNU one:
$ ./configure
$ ["make"]
$ make install
You usually can do configure and make as a regular user and make install as root
See also:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tarball Wikipedia article about tarball].
- *.["dsc"] (another source code file).
FileRoller in DebianGnome, that can uncompress and unpack files.
CategoryRedundant: ["targz"]