tar
Computer file format that can combine multiple files into a single file called "tarball"
Also known as tarball · .tar · Tar · tar file · tar archive
- Instance of
- archive file format
- , file archiver
- , file format
- +1 more
- Subclass of
Overview
All data
32 statements · 25% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Media type
- application/x-tar
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Sources- 1.svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/tags/2.4.57/docs/conf/mime.types?view=markup#l1320Retrieved 2023-10-15
- application/x-tar
- File format identification pattern
- 7573746172 offset: 257 byte · encoding: hexadecimal
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Sources- 1.Stated in Gary Kessler's File Signature TableRetrieved 2017-08-08
- 7573746172 offset: 257 byte · encoding: hexadecimal
- Released
- January 1979
- Followed by
- Public domain tar(August 25, 1985)
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Sources- 1.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/tree/src/tar.cRetrieved 2021-02-02
- Public domain tar(August 25, 1985)
On other databases
13 identifiers linking tar across the web's reference databases
- File Format Wiki page IDTape_Archive
- Freebase ID/m/013r8b
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDtar
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0523033
- Library of Congress Format Description Document IDfdd000531
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)192643346
- Namuwiki IDTAR
- NARA File Format Preservation Plan IDNF00423
- OpenAlex IDC192643346
- OSDev article ID3057
- PRONOM file format IDx-fmt/265
- Uniform Type Identifierpublic.tar-archive
- Zhihu topic ID19644407