The .tar extension is most often representative of an archive, or single file package which holds the contents of an entire directory and all files, including subdirectories within it. The reason for this method of packaging, to put it simply, is simplicity! To illustrate this point, I'll ask you to consider the structure of the files and information on a website; if you compare it to the structure of the various files on your computer, you will see that they are quite similar, with a tree like, branching order. The user takes advantage of this to organize his or her data in the way they see fit, breaking things like pictures, music, video, textual documents and core system and program files into distinct sections. Now imagine that the user needs to make a backup of some important data, perhaps files that are often manipulated and changing.
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Instead of having the backup file read as a list of individual folders and files, the user can take any 'section,' or type of information they wish and package it and all the files that comprise the group as a single, easy to manage file which can be archived or transmitted over a network with a minimum of clutter and confusion. This is the task which is accomplished with the implementation of the .tar archival functionality.
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More Info Regarding File Extension Tar
Tar is a command line program which comes pre-installed on almost every flavor of Linux imaginable, and which has no identical companion program across other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. There are, however, programs with graphical user interfaces that display the same functionality on both of the aforementioned platforms. Virtually any program that can decompress and extract .zip files should also be able to extract a .tar extension archive. Also, it is worth noting here that it is not necessary to use the command line form of tar within Linux; there are a great many file decompression and extraction software packages available for free download with easy to use graphical interfaces.
While tar can be used by itself, it is most often used with either the 'bzip' or 'gzip' compression format, giving it the same functionality--archival and compression--found in the .zip format often used in the Windows operating system. Both of these different compression formats are almost always preinstalled on all Linux distributions as the tar format is, but if you find that it isn't, it again can be obtained for free, like all open source software. Both formats are comparable, with relatively minor variation in extraction time and compression ratios. Either will suffice, and when compression is applied to a tar archive, its file extension is appended to include either a .gz or .bz; for example, "file.tar.gz".
As when you extract a .tar archive it 'unloads' files into either the current directory or one specified specifically by the user, it's important to be sure that you are not working in a directory where important files can be overwritten. Also important to remember is that the capability exists for a malicious 'attack' of sorts to be carried out on your computer in that files within system directories and other important places can be overwritten and erased permanently with junk files. It is therefore important to be aware of the credibility and intentions of the source from which you are obtaining the file you intent to extract.
If you are having trouble identifying a file which you think may be a tar archive or is labeled as such, a wise first step would be to attempt to view, rather than extract the contents of the archive using whichever general decompression program suits your tastes. If you do not receive an error and find yourself looking at a comprehensible list of files and/or directories, then you're ready to go; but again, know your source. If when attempting this task you do receive an error or are looking at garbled data, it is possible that the file you're working with is either corrupt or mislabeled. To eliminate the possibility that the source of the problem is corrupt data, first obtain a new copy of the file on disk or by download, and if the problem persists, try to find a different source for the same file to avoid the possibility of data damage at the file's source.
