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Upon extraction, tar silently overwrites the files in the destination directory if applicable.
Upon extraction, the result is undefined if a file that is not in tar format is passed to the tar command.
Execution of tar command would fail if invalid patterns are specified by --exclude and --include options, or valid patterns are specified but cause conflict. When this happens, tar terminates with one line message without detail information provided.
SEE ALSO
zip
unzip
gzip
gunzip