NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

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

OPTIONS

EXTENDED OPTIONS

--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

artype=headertype

Generate a tape archive in headertype format. For more information, see star(1).

-/

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

--..

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

--7z

run the input or output through a p7zip pipe - see option -z below.

Note that the p7zip program currently does not operate on a pipe but on a /tmp file copy and thus limits the maximum archive size.

--secure-links

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

--no-secure-links

extract links that start with '/' or contain '..'

--acl

handle access control lists

--xfflags

handle extended file flags

bs=#

set (output) block size to #

fs=#

set fifo size to #

--no-fsync

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

--do-fsync

call fsync() for each extracted file.

--time

print timing info

--no-statistics

do not print statistics

--do-statistics

rint 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

--lzo

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

--lzip

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

-z

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

--bz

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

--zstd

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

The options above are not defined by Sun tar.

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

EXAMPLES

ENVIRONMENT

FILES

SEE ALSO

DIAGNOSTICS

NOTES

Suntar -x is equivalent to star -xU -force-remove -remove-first -keep-nonempty-dirs

BUGS

AUTHOR

Joerg Schilling
D-13353 Berlin
Germany

Mail bugs and suggestions to:

joerg@schily.net