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NAME

gettar, lstar, puttar - tar archive utilities

SYNOPSIS

gettar [ -k ] [ -v ] [ -R ] [ name ... ]
lstar
puttar [ file ... ]

DESCRIPTION

These commands manage POSIX.1 tar archives in Inferno.

Gettar reads a tar file from standard input and unpacks the contents into the current directory tree. By default, gettar converts absolute path names, including names starting with #, into names relative to the current directory; the -R option extracts such names as-is. The -k option tells gettar to keep existing files rather than overwriting them with files from the archive. The -v option causes gettar to print on standard error the names of files extracted. Finally, listing one or more names as arguments will extract only those files.

Lstar reads a tar file from standard input and lists the files contained therein, one per line, with four space-separated fields giving the file name, modification time (in seconds since the epoch), size (in bytes), and a constant 0 (the place holder for a checksum). The format is the same as that produced by du -n -t.

Puttar writes a tar file to standard output that contains each file, and its substructure if it is a directory. Given no arguments, puttar instead reads a list of file names from standard input and includes each file or directory named; it does not copy directory substructure.

EXAMPLE

The following commands create a tar file with two files test.b and srv.b:

$ cat tarlist
test.b
srv.b
$ puttar <tarlist >test.tar
$ lstar <test.tar
test.b 867178082 1104 0
srv.b 866042662 3865 0

SOURCE

/appl/cmd/gettar.b
/appl/cmd/lstar.b
/appl/cmd/puttar.b

SEE ALSO

tarfs(4)

GETTAR(1 ) Rev:  Thu Feb 15 14:42:47 GMT 2007