Question

To create an archive named abc.tar consisting of two files,  file01 and file02, which of the following command will be used?

(a) tar -cvf  abc.tar  file01  file02

(b) tar -cvf  file01  file02  abc.tar

(c) tar -cv  abc.tar  file01  file02

(d) tar -c  abc.tar  file01  file02

This question was addressed to me in an internship interview.

This key question is from Compressing and Archiving Files in chapter Handling Ordinary Files of Unix

Answer 1

Correct choice is (b) tar -cvf  file01  file02  abc.tar

To explain I would say: To create an archive -c option is used, -v is used to display the progress while tar works while -f is used to specify the name of the archive. All these options can be combined together as (-cvf).