UNIX Tar
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tar, short for tape archive is an archival format used on UNIX, Unix-like and BSD OSes for storing files. It simply groups files together in a concatenation, compression is provided separately by gzip, bzip2, xz/lzma, or zstd compression. IRIX also uses tar for its tardist format.
Implementations of tar for IRIX
Three implementations of tar for IRIX are available:
- IRIX tar, the standard /sbin/tar command. It is not recommended to use this tar for a few reasons: Path length limitations, no compression support, and buffer overflow issues.
- bsdtar, aka libarchive tar. This is a better tar with fixes for all of those.
- gnutar. The standard GNU implementation of tar.
