Why Are Tarballs STILL A THING? 🤐

As is customary to Linux philosophy - do one thing and do it well - TAR is an archiving utility and just that. It provides support for Unix file system metadata, even special files and ACLs and it is still around because it does this one job and it does it perfectly. By the end of this video you will have all the knowledge and understanding you need to use the tar command confidently.

CHAPTERS
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0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Archiving is not compressing
1:30 - Quick history lesson
2:19 - TAR syntax and options
3:25 - Examples in the terminal
3:35 - Creating uncompressed archives
3:51 - Checking contents and integrity
4:11 - Extracting archives (current directory)
4:33 - Extracting archives (other directory)
4:47 - Creating gzip (.tar.gz) tarballs
5:01 - Creating bzip2 (.tar.bz) tarballs
5:12 - Creating xz (.tar.xz) tarballs
5:31 - Bonus: splitting archives into chunks
6:49 - Wrap-up and real-talk