tar Review
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Review of tar powered by the Slant community.
The command-line tool tar can usually compress from xz (fast and good ratio but somewhat less common) to gzip (most common) via bzip2.
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PlatformsUnix-like, Windows
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Pros
Pro Works from command-line
Cons
Con No compression
Tar (tape archiver) was mainly made for tape drives, so it has handy features like split archives. However, it does not feature any compression, so you have to compress the files again with gunzip or bunzip.