Quiz 5:The tar and jar utilities

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Question 1: What is the chief purpose of the tar and jar utilities?

Question 2: What will you get with the -v option to the tar command?

Question 3: Will the tar utility create directories when you extract them from a tar file or do you have to have the directories in place and just let the tar utility "pour" the files into the existing directory tree?

Question 4: What does the following command do:
tar -tf classFiles.tar?

Question 5: In addition to gathering together multiple Java and supporting files into one, what does the jar utility do?

Question 6: If you create a jar file with the contents of a directory named classFiles, what will happen if you extract the contents of that jar file in the /tmp directory?