| Format introduction | In computing, tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into one archive file, often referred to as a tarball, for distribution or backup purposes. The archive data sets created by tar contain various file system parameters, such as time stamps, ownership, file access permissions, and directory organization. |
| Technical details | A tar archive file contains uncompressed byte streams of the files which it contains. To achieve archive compression, a variety of compression programs are available, such as gzip, bzip2, xz, lzip, lzma, or compress, which compress the entire tar archive. |
| File extension | .tar |
| MIME | application/x-tar |
| Type of format | File archiver |
| Associated programs | TAR |
| Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing) |
| TAR to 7z | convert from archive to archive |
| TAR to ZIP | convert from archive to archive |
| 7z to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| XZ to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| BZIP2 to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| GZIP to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| ZIP to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| WIM to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| AR to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| ARJ to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| CAB to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| CPIO to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| CramFS to TAR | convert from to archive |
| DMG to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| EXT to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| FAT to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| GPT to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| HFS to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| IHEX to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| ISO to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| LZH to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| LZMA to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| MBR to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| MSI to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| NSIS to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| NTFS to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| QCOW2 to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| RAR to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| RPM to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| SquashFS to TAR | convert from to archive |
| UDF to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| UEFI to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| VDI to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| VHD to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| VMDK to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| XAR to TAR | convert from archive to archive |
| Z to TAR | convert from archive to archive |