NAME

tar -
Tar file creation, extraction & manipulation

SYNOPSIS

package require Tcl 8.4
package require tar  ? 0.1 ? 
::tar::contents tarball
::tar::stat tarball  ? file ? 
::tar::untar tarball args
::tar::get tarball fileName
::tar::create tarball files args
::tar::add tarball files args

DESCRIPTION

::tar::contents tarball

Returns a list of the files contained in tarball.

::tar::stat tarball ? file ?

Returns a nested dict containing information on the named ? file ? in tarball, or all files. the top level are pairs of filename and info. The info is a dict in the form mode uid gid size mtime type linkname uname gname devmajor devminor

% ::tar::stat tarball.tar
foo.jpg {mode 0644 uid 1000 gid 0 size 7580 mtime 811903867 type file linkname {} uname user gname wheel devmajor 0 devminor 0}

::tar::untar tarball args

Extracts tarball

-dir dirName

-file fileName

-glob pattern

-nooverwrite

-nomtime

-noperms

::tar::get tarball fileName

Returns the contents of fileName from the tarball

::tar::create tarball files args

Creates a new tar file containing the files

-dereference

::tar::add tarball files args

Appends files to the end of the existing tarball

-dereference

KEYWORDS

tar, tape archive, archive