:tar and feather: [from UNIX `tar(1)'] vt. To create a
transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them
together with `tar(1)' (the Tape ARchiver) and then
compressing the result (see {compress}). The latter action is
dubbed `feathering' partly for euphony and (if only for contrived
effect) by analogy to what you do with an airplane propeller to
decrease wind resistance, or with an oar to reduce water
resistance; smaller files, after all, slip through comm links more
easily.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them
together with `tar(1)' (the Tape ARchiver) and then
compressing the result (see {compress}). The latter action is
dubbed `feathering' partly for euphony and (if only for contrived
effect) by analogy to what you do with an airplane propeller to
decrease wind resistance, or with an oar to reduce water
resistance; smaller files, after all, slip through comm links more
easily.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- tar and feather vi.
[from Unix tar(1)] To create a
transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them
together with tar(1) (the Tape ARchiver) and then
compressing the result (see compress).
The latter action is dubbed `feathering' partly... - zip: [primarily MS-DOS] vt. To create a compressed archive from a
group of files using PKWare's PKZIP or a compatible archiver.
Its use is spreading now that portable implementations... - zip vt.
[primarily MS-DOS] To create a compressed archive
from a group of files using PKWare's PKZIP or a compatible
archiver.
Its use is spreading now that portable implementations... - tarball n.
[very common; prob. based on the "tar
baby" in the Uncle Remus folk tales] An archive,
created with the Unix tar(1) utility, containing... - sharchive: /shar'ki:v/ [UNIX and USENET; from /bin/sh archive]
n.
A {flatten}ed representation of a set of one or more... - spool: [from early IBM `Simultaneous Peripheral Operation
On-Line',
but this acronym is widely thought to have been contrived... - grep: /grep/ [from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p ,
where re stands for a regular expression, to Globally... - GFR: /G-F-R/ vt. [ITS: from `Grim File Reaper', an ITS and LISP
Machine utility] To remove a file or files according to some
program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure,
especially one designed to reclaim mass storage... - nuke: /n[y]ook/ vt. 1. To intentionally delete the entire
contents of a given directory or storage volume.
"On UNIX, `rm -r /usr' will nuke everything in the...
