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TAR File Format

Tape Archive is a Unix standard archive format that concatenates multiple files and directory structures together without applying data compression.

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Technical Specifications

Extensions.tar
MIME Typesapplication/x-tar
CategoryArchive
Engine Tiertier1-small-js
Magic Bytes / SniffingContainer sniffing (ZIP / OLE2 / RIFF header inspection)
Opens WithUnix terminal, 7-Zip, macOS Archive Utility
Good ForPackaging file structures while preserving Unix permissions before compression.
Not Recommended ForStand-alone size reduction without pairing with gzip or bzip2.

Convert from TAR (3 targets)

TARZIP(exact)TARTGZ(exact)TARBZ2(exact)

Convert to TAR (7 sources)

ZIPTAR(exact)TGZTAR(exact)7ZTAR(exact)RARTAR(exact)BZ2TAR(exact)XZTAR(exact)GZTAR(exact)