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...except that a tar file really has nothing to do with compression at all. It's just a way of serializing a hierarchy of files into a single file, without any
by BrandonM 19y ago
...except that a tar file really has nothing to do with compression at all. It's just a way of serializing a hierarchy of files into a single file, without any compression. The compression comes when you run gzip or bzip2 (typically using the -z or -j option to tar) on the tar file.