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  2. tar (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into one archive file, often referred to as a tarball, for distribution or backup purposes. The name is derived from "tape archive", as it was originally developed to write data to sequential I/O devices with no file system of their own, such as devices that use magnetic tape.

  3. List of archive formats - Wikipedia

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    An implementation of the LZO data compression algorithm. .rz rzip: Unix-like A compression program designed to do particularly well on very large files containing long distance redundancy. .sfark sfArk: Windows compress/decompress- Linux and macOS decompress only A compression program designed to do high compression on SF2 files . .sz

  4. pax (command) - Wikipedia

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    pax is an archiving utility available for various operating systems and defined since 1995. [1] Rather than sort out the incompatible options that have crept up between tar and cpio, along with their implementations across various versions of Unix, the IEEE designed a new archive utility pax that could support various archive formats with useful options from both archivers.

  5. Dar (disk archiver) - Wikipedia

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    Per-file compression with gzip, bzip2, lzo, xz or lzma (as opposed to compressing the whole archive). An individual can choose not to compress already compressed files based on their filename suffix. Fast-extracting of files from anywhere in the archive; Fast listing of archive contents through saving the catalogue of files in the archive

  6. Solid compression - Wikipedia

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    A tar.gz is created by joining the files in tar and then compressing with gzip. In computing, solid compression is a method for data compression of multiple files, wherein all the uncompressed files are concatenated and treated as a single data block. Such an archive is called a solid archive.

  7. Archive file - Wikipedia

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    Archive files are particularly useful in that they store file system data and metadata within the contents of a particular file, and thus can be stored on systems or sent over channels that do not support the file system in question, only file contents – examples include sending a directory structure over email, files with names unsupported on the target file system due to length or ...

  8. Comparison of file archivers - Wikipedia

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    The operating systems the archivers can run on without emulation or compatibility layer. Ubuntu's own GUI Archive manager, for example, can open and create many archive formats (including Rar archives) even to the extent of splitting into parts and encryption and ability to be read by the native program.

  9. lzip - Wikipedia

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    For example, if the underlying file is a tar archive, this can allow extracting any undamaged files, even if other parts of the archive are damaged. As for the file format, special emphasis has been put on enabling integrity checks by means of an integrated 32-bit checksum for each compressed stream; [ 3 ] this is used in combination with the ...