Someone somewhere is probably still using tar with tape. Forty years later we are still using the tar command to extract tar files on to our hard drives. Tar files date all the way back to 1979 when the tar command was created to allow system administrators to archive files onto tape. ![]() tar portion of the file extension stands for tape archive, and is the reason that both of these file types are called tar files. tar extension is uncompressed, but those will be very rare. ![]() tar.bz2 extension are compressed archive files.
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