Multiple choice technology storage

What is “tar” ?

  1. Compression utility

  2. Compression and tape archive utility

  3. Tape scan utility

  4. utility to zip the files.
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B Correct answer
Explanation

tar stands for Tape Archive. Originally designed to write sequential data to tape storage devices, modern implementations function as archiving utilities. While tar itself only packages files into a single archive without compression, it is universally coupled with compression algorithms like gzip or bzip2 to compress files.

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