Seed7 Program: Tar7

Tar7

Tar7 is the Seed7 version of the tar archiving utility.

Tar7 lists, extracts and creates tar, zip, rpm, cpio and ar archives.

The extension .tar is used for TAR archive files.
The extensions .tgz and .tar.gz are used when a TAR archive file is compressed with gzip.
The extension .tar.bz2 is used when a TAR archive file is compressed with bzip2.
The extensions .zip and .zipx" are used for ZIP archives.
The extension .rpm is used for RPM archives.
The extension .cpio is used for CPIO archives.
The extensions .a and .ar" are used for AR archives.

usage: tar7 command{modifier} argument

The following commands are supported by tar7 (one of the commands -c, -t or -x must be specified):

	-t		Tell about the contents of a tar, zip, rpm, cpio or ar archive
	-x		Extract files from a tar, zip, rpm, cpio or ar archive
	-c		Create a new tar, zip, rpm, cpio or ar archive

The commands can be altered with the following modifiers:

	v		Verbosely list files processed
	z		Zip a new created archve with gzip or decompress an existing archive that has been compressed with gzip, bzip2, xz, zstd or lzma
	f		Use archive file provided as argument (the modifier `f` must be specified)

Example of a tar7 usage:

s7 tar7 -tvzf ../../seed7_05_20100221.tgz

Starting Tar7

List content of Seed7 archive (begin)

List content of Seed7 archive (end)