: You can pipe the output of a tar command directly into other programs or over a network, making it ideal for automation.
Because a standard tar file is just a bundle, it doesn't save any disk space. To reduce file size, tarballs are usually using secondary tools. This results in the "double extension" commonly seen in Linux downloads: tarball files
Tarballs aren’t perfect. Be aware of:
Here are some common extensions used for tarball files: : You can pipe the output of a
: Compressed with Bzip2 , offering better compression ratios than Gzip but taking more time to process. tarball files
This command extracts the contents of the archive.tar.gz tarball file into the current directory.