man suntar (Commandes) - create tape archives and add or extract files

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

"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
-/
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
bs=#
set (output) block size to #
fs=#
set fifo size to #
--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

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(4/5), rcmd(3), fssnap(1m)

DIAGNOSTICS

NOTES

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

BUGS

AUTHOR

Jorg Schilling
Seestr. 110
D-13353 Berlin
Germany

Mail bugs and suggestions to:

schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de or js@cs.tu-berlin.de or joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de