gettar, lstar, puttar - tar archive utilities

gettar <tarfile
lstar  <tarfile
puttar <file_list  >tar_output

Description

The gettar, lstar, and puttar commands provides a way to manage POSIX.1 tar archives in Inferno.

The gettar command reads a tar file and unpacks the contents into the current directory tree.

The lstar command reads a tar file and lists the filenames.

The puttar command reads a list of filenames from standard input and writes a tar file to standard output. Input stops when end-of-file is reached.

The following example creates a tar file with the 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