A systems administrator would like to back up all of the'. conf' files on a server The administrator runs the command: Find / --name `'*conf'' > backup,tar After investigating the backup, tar file…

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Options

• Afind / -name ''*conf'' | xargs -- verbose tar xvf backup,tar
• Bfind/ -name ''*conf'' exec echo { } ; > backup.tar
• Cfind / -name ''*conf'' | cpio -o --format=tar > backup.tar
• Dtar -jtf -<<$(find /-name ''*conf'')

• A
  75% (27)
• B
  14% (5)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  8% (3)

Explanation

The original command find / -name '*conf' > backup.tar only redirected a list of filenames into a file - it did not archive any file contents. The correct solution is C: find / -name '*conf' | cpio -o --format=tar > backup.tar. Here, find outputs the list of matching files, which is piped to cpio -o (output/create mode) with --format=tar, producing a proper tar-format archive containing the actual file contents. Option A is marked correct but contains tar xvf (extract flag), which would attempt to extract rather than create a backup - this appears to be a typo in the exam; it should likely read tar cvf. Option B only echoes filenames. Option D's syntax is malformed and non-functional.

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