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• ar 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 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...
• 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 of the algorithm have been written....
• 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 of the algorithm have been written....
• arball 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 myriad related files.
  Here, I'll just ftp you a tarball of the whole project....
• harchive: /shar'ki:v/ [UNIX and USENET; from /bin/sh archive] n.
  A {flatten}ed representation of a set of one or more files, with the unique property that it can be unflattened (the original files restored) by feeding it through a standard UNIX shell...
• pool: [from early IBM `Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line', but this acronym is widely thought to have been contrived for effect] vt.
  To send files to some device or program (a `spooler') that queues them up and does something useful with them later....
• grep: /grep/ [from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p
  where re stands for a regular expression, to Globally search for the Regular Expression and Print the lines containing matches to it, via {{UNIX}} `grep(1)'] vt....
• 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 space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape)....
• uke: /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 usr filesystem....