# tar

> computer file format that can combine multiple files into a single file called "tarball"

**Wikidata**: [Q283579](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q283579)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing))  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/tar-q283579


## References

1. [Source](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/tree/src/tar.c)
2. [Source](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar&apropos=0&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html)
3. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
4. [Source](https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/tags/2.4.57/docs/conf/mime.types?view=markup#l1320)
5. [Archive metadata — reproducible-builds.org](https://reproducible-builds.org./docs/archives/#full-example)
6. [Source](https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/libarchive-dev/tar.5.en.html)
7. [Source](https://pubs.opengroup.org./onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/tar.h.html)
8. [Source](https://www.gnu.org./software/tar/manual/html_node/Formats.html#Formats)
9. [Source](https://www.loc.gov./preservation/resources/rfs/data.html)
10. [Source](https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Miscellaneous/Reference/UTIRef/Articles/System-DeclaredUniformTypeIdentifiers.html)
11. Gary Kessler's File Signature Table
12. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)