“Travelling through the mysterious and wonderful world of the
linux file system we come across a program called ‘ar’ and we think
to ourselves, ‘What is this ‘ar’ program thingy?’. It sounds like a
pirates exclamation but it is actually a very important
program.“The program ‘ar’ stands for ARchive and that is exactly what it
does. It archives files as separate units in one larger
file…”
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