Targzarchívumok

Targzarchívumok are file archives commonly used in computing, particularly within Linux and Unix-like operating systems. The name "targz" is a portmanteau derived from two components: tar and gz. Tar, which stands for tape archive, is a utility used to collect many files into a single archive file, often referred to as a tarball. The tar format itself does not provide compression. The second component, gz, refers to gzip, a popular data compression program. Therefore, a .targz file is essentially a tar archive that has been compressed using gzip.

The primary purpose of creating targz archives is to bundle multiple files and directories into a single, easily transferable file, and then to reduce the size of this bundle for more efficient storage and transmission. This is particularly useful for distributing software, configuration files, or backups. When a user encounters a .targz file, they typically first decompress it using a tool like gzip (often automatically handled by archive management software) to restore the original tar archive, and then they extract the contents of the tar archive using the tar utility. This two-step process is standard for handling this type of archive. Many graphical archive managers can handle the decompression and extraction in a single operation, making it seamless for the end-user.