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What is the difference between tar and zip?

What is the difference between tar and zip? What are the use cases for each?

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May 10 '12 at 19:32
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tar itself simply links files together, while zip also applies compression.

Usually you use gzip along with tar to compress the resulting tarball, thereby achieving similar results as with zip.

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