Tarballs

[ScratchMonkey]

--On Saturday, December 14, 2002 4:26 PM -0500 Greg <bogs at rochester.rr.com> 
wrote:

> I am still trying to figure out how this .tar
> works is it like winzip and how to you "tarball" the file that is uploaded
> to the server?

Start by typing "man tar".

A simple tarball is just a concatenation of files with some headers, no 
compression. You can also compress the tarball with various utilities such 
as gzip or bzip2, and the tar command includes options to invoke these 
automatically. For instance, the z option invokes gzip and the j option 
does the same for bzip2. So "tar xvfj foo.tar.bz2" will decompress and then 
extract files from this compressed tarball.