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Which of the following is an archival program?(a) arch(b) archive(c) ar(d) tarThis question was posed to me in an interview.I need to ask this question from Compressing and Archiving Files in chapter Handling Ordinary Files of Unix

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Right option is (d) tar

The explanation is: For archiving files to the disk we use tar. It can be USED to archive a group of files or an entire DIRECTORY structure. tar program provides a handful of UTILITIES like creating, maintaining, modifying and extracting files that are in tar format. Tar STANDS for ‘tape ARCHIVAL’.



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