STUNAR(1)

NAME
suntar - create tape archives and add or extract files

SYNOPSIS
suntar command [ options ] file1 ... filen

DESCRIPTION

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
Star supports the Sun tar options.

EXTENDED 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

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
    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

--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).

SEE ALSO
spax(1), suntar(1), scpio(1), tar(1), cpio(1), pax(1), rcp(1), mt(1), rmt(1), match(1), dd(1), sdd(1), rsh(1), ssh(1), star(1), star(5), rcmd(3), fssnap(1m)

NOTES

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

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

BUGS

None currently known.

Mail bugs and suggestions to schilytools@mlists.in-berlin.de or open a ticket at https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/issues.

The mailing list archive may be found at:

https://mlists.in-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/schilytools-mlists.in-berlin.de.

AUTHORS
Joerg Schilling and the schilytools project authors.

SOURCE DOWNLOAD
The source code for suntar is included in the schilytools project and may be retrieved from the schilytools project at Codeberg at

https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools.

The download directory is

https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/releases.