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tar is an archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file. This tarred file (called a tar file), can be archived to any media including a tape drive and a hard drive. The syntax of a tar command is tar <action> <optional functions> <file(s)/directory(ies)>. If the last parameter is a directory, all subdirectories under the directory are also tarred.