| tar (file format) | … |
|---|---|
| Filename extension | .tar |
| Internet media type | application/x-tar |
| Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) | public.tar-archive |
| Magic number | u s t a r \0 0 0 at byte offset 257 (for POSIX versions) u s t a r \040 \040 \0 (for old GNU tar format)1 absent in pre-POSIX versions |
| Latest release | various various |
| Type of format | Archive file |
| Compression | |
| Standard | POSIX since POSIX.1, presently in the definition of pax2 |
| Open format ? | Yes |
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Footnotes
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Gilmore, John; Fenlason, Jay (4 February 2019). “Basic Tar Format”. gnu.org. and others. Free Software Foundation. Retrieved 17 April 2019. ↩
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http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pax.html#tag_20_92_13_06 ↩