So the classic Unix pipeline was born:
Let’s unpack it. (Pun intended.) First, meet tar (Tape ARchive). Born in the early days of Unix, tar was designed for tape drives . Its job was simple: Take a bunch of files and folders, glue them into one big byte stream, preserving permissions, owners, and directory structure. That’s it. No compression. Just packing . gzipped tarball
It’s not broken. It never needed fixing. So the classic Unix pipeline was born: Let’s unpack it
The .tar.gz is not glamorous. It doesn’t have a cool logo. But it’s carried source code across continents, slotted into CI pipelines, and faithfully restored countless backups. slotted into CI pipelines