Tar (Linux tool)
tar, short for tarball, is a Linux utility to compress directories into a single file and then decompress them.
A tarball, the name for a file created by tar, has the file extension" . tar" .
tar is often used with GZip to compress the created tarballs, because the tarballs are often quite large.
Since the tarball contains every file in a directory, it is as big or slightly bigger than all of the files by themself.
Linux software