Simpletar

Simpletar is a simple command-line wrapper around the UNIX 'tar' tool. It includes options for creating and extracting tar, xz, bzip2 and gzip files, as well as for listing archive contents and updating/deleting uncompressed archives.

Simpletar includes 2 files:

lib.py contains the wrapper functions used in simpletar as well as a utility for determining a set of commonly used file extensions for each archive type available in simpletar.
simpletar is the main script that uses the name of the archive file and/or its header's "magic bytes" to try and determine the used compression type, if any.

Examples

Create a new .gzip archive file from files A, B, C:

$ simpletar -c archive.tar.gz -f A B C

List the contents of that archive file:

$ simpletar -l archive.tar.gz
A
B
C

Now extract it:

$ simpletar -x archive.tar.gz

For plain .tar archives, you can also use the update or delete commands, which are pretty self-explanatory.

delete removes a file from the archive:

$ simpletar -c archive.tar -f A B C
$ simpletar -l archive.tar
A
B
C
$ simpletar -d archive.tar -f B
$ simpletar -l archive.tar
A
C

update appends a set of files if their editions are newer than the copies already existing in the archive (if any).

$ simpletar -c archive.tar -f A B C
$ simpletar -u archive.tar -f A
$ simpletar -l archive.tar
A
B
C
$ touch A
$ simpletar -u archive.tar -f A
$ simpletar -l archive.tar
A
B
C
A

License

Simpletar is available under the GPLv3 license.

VHarisop/Simpletar

Simpletar

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