tar

The Unix tar command is a utility for handling archives of files:

It can assemble entire large directory structures into a single file (called a tar archive), which can be saved or written to offline backup.
It can reconstitute directory structures from a tar archive.
It can extract one or more files from a tar archive.

For more information, see the man page for tar.

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