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Most tar implementations can also read and create cpio and pax (the latter actually is a tar-format with POSIX-2001-extensions). Key implementations in order of origin: Solaris tar, based on the original Unix V7 tar and comes as the default on the Solaris operating system; GNU tar is the default on most Linux distributions. It is based on the ...
The "tarball" format combines tar archives with a file-based compression scheme (usually gzip). Commonly used for source and binary distribution on Unix-like platforms, widely available elsewhere. Xarchiver supports the .tar.zst Archive/Compression format on Unix-like platforms. .uc .uc0 .uc2 .ucn .ur2 .ue2 UltraCompressor II DOS: DOS
gzip is a file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression.The program was created by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler as a free software replacement for the compress program used in early Unix systems, and intended for use by GNU (from which the "g" of gzip is derived).
tar.z compressed file (often tar zip) using Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm 1F A0 ␟⍽ 0 z tar.z Compressed file (often tar zip) using LZH algorithm 2D 6C 68 30 2D-lh0-2 lzh Lempel Ziv Huffman archive file Method 0 (No compression) 2D 6C 68 35 2D-lh5-2 lzh Lempel Ziv Huffman archive file Method 5 (8 KiB sliding window) 42 41 43 4B 4D 49 4B 45 44 ...
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.
The original version of Squashfs used gzip compression, although Linux kernel 2.6.34 added support for LZMA [11] and LZO compression, [12] Linux kernel 2.6.38 added support for LZMA2 compression (which is used by xz), [13] Linux kernel 3.19 added support for LZ4 compression, [14] and Linux kernel 4.14 added support for Zstandard compression. [15]
TAR GZ BZ/BZ2 7z XZ RAR LHA/LZH ACE SIT SITX ARJ KGB DAR ARC CAB ALZ ISO/CD Image ZPAQ; 7-Zip: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No [a] No No Yes No No No Yes No Yes No ALZip: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Unknown Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No TAR: No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No Archive Utility: Yes Yes Yes Yes ...
Like gzip and bzip2, concatenation is supported to compress multiple files, but the convention is to bundle a file that is an archive itself, such as those created by the tar or cpio Unix programs. Lzip can split the output for the creation of multivolume archives.