Please Help, I am Ignorant!!! :)

[LittleGreenGecko]

I needed to know some definitions:

what does tar mean?

what does bin mean?

Thanks,
Sean Ochoa
http://www.ansyr.com

[slayer17]

tar stands for tape archiver. You will see it on files like foo.tar to open it you need to first read the man page.

man tar

then tar xvf foo.tar it is similiar to a zip file.

bin means binary. such as /bin directory in unix.

Hope this helps.

[nopri]

hello,


tar :
If you have many files in one directory and mean to compress it, you can encapsulate it to one big file, using tar called tarball.]
Then you can compress it using gzip, so the compressed file has suffix .tar.gz. It done because gzip cannot compress many files,and actually tar doesnot compress at all, it just encapsulate files into a file.

bin :
term for binary, an executable compiled program, may be using c langauge, or etc. Usually in Linux system, it stored in /bin or /usr/bin
have experienced on them