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STUNAR(1)		     Schily's USER COMMANDS		       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 ex-
	    its.

     --xhelp
	    Prints a summary of the less important options for suntar(1) and ex-
	    its.

     --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-non-
     empty-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.

Joerg Schilling 		   2022/10/06			       STUNAR(1)

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