This series is dedicated to exploring little-known—and occasionally useful—trinkets lurking in the dusty corners of UNIX-like operating systems.
When you think about creating and managing archives on a UNIX system,
tar
is probably the utility that comes to mind. But this was not the first archiving program;
ar
was in First Edition UNIX
1
and
cpio
also pre-...
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