suntar1

Usage

Overview

This manual page documents an emulation of the Sun version of tar. It has been implemented on top of the star program.

For a description of the Sun tar program check the Sun tar manual page.

Options

Options

The extended options are options taken from star.

--help

Prints a summary of the most important options for suntar(1) and exits.

--xhelp

Prints a summary of the less important options for suntar(1) and exits.

--version

Prints the suntar version number string and exists.

--debug

print additional debug messages

xdebug=#

xd=#

set extended debug level

-/

don't strip leading '/'s from file names

-..

don't skip filenames that contain '..' in non-interactive extract

--secure-links

don't extract links that start with '/' or contain '..'

--acl

handle access control lists

--xfflags

handle extended file flags

--no-fsync

do not call fsync() for each extracted file (may be dangerous)

--time

print timing info

--no-statistics

do not print statistics

--fifostats

print fifo statistics

--no-fifo

don't use a fifo to optimize data flow from/to tape

--numeric

don't use user/group name from tape

-z

pipe input/output through gzip, does not work on tapes

--bz

pipe input/output through bzip2, does not work on tapes

The options above are not defined by Sun tar.

For a complete documentation of the star based optione check star(1).

Examples

Environment

Files

Diagnostics

Notes

This suntar implementation is based on the star implementation and does not implement all features of the original Sun tar program.