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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tarball</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tar-and-feather.html" title="tar and feather"/><link rel="next" href="tardegy.html" title="tardegy"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tarball</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tar-and-feather.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tardegy.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tarball"/><dt xmlns="" id="tarball"><b>tarball</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [very common; prob. based on the “<span class="quote">tar baby</span>” in the
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Uncle Remus folk tales] An archive, created with the Unix <span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">tar</span>(1)</span> utility,
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containing myriad related files. “<span class="quote">Here, I'll just ftp you a tarball
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of the whole project.</span>” Tarballs have been the standard way to ship
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around source-code distributions since the mid-1980s; in retrospect it
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seems odd that this term did not enter common usage until the late
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