Tarball
A tarball is a name that describe a group of files that are bundled together using the tar command. If the tar file is compressed using gzip the tarball will end with tar.gz. Microsoft Windows users can also create and extract tarball files using the 7Zip compression utility.
- See the Linux tar command page for additional information about the command.
- How do I extract or uncompress a compressed file?
Also see: Compressed file, Gzip