minitar-cli¶ ↑

home: github.com/halostatue/minitar-cli/
code: github.com/halostatue/minitar-cli/
bugs: github.com/halostatue/minitar-cli/issues
rdoc: rdoc.info/gems/minitar-cli/

Description¶ ↑

minitar-cli is a pure-Ruby command-line tool that uses minitar to provide a command-line tool, minitar, for working with POSIX tar(1) archive files.

Synopsis¶ ↑

Using minitar-cli is easy; its functionality is provided through bin/minitar (installed as miniitar). It supports three basic commands: create, extract, and list.

All minitar commands support two common options, verbose and progress. These are mutually exclusive and progress has a higher priority than verbose.

verbose: --verbose (-V), puts the requested command in verbose mode.
progress: --progress (-P), shows a progress bar (if appropriate) or puts the requested command in verbose mode.

+minitar create+¶ ↑

minitar create [OPTIONS] <tarfile|-> <file|directory|-->+

Creates a new tarfile. If the tarfile is named .tar.gz or .tgz, then it will be compressed automatically. If the tarfile is “-”, then it will be output to standard output (stdout) so that minitar may be piped.

The files or directories that will be packed into the tarfile are specified after the name of the tarfile itself. Directories will be processed recursively. If the token “–” is found in the list of files to be packed, additional filenames will be read from standard input (stdin). If any file is not found, the packaging will be halted.

create also supports the compress option.

compress: --compress (-z), compresses the tarfile with gzip.

+minitar extract+¶ ↑

minitar extract [OPTIONS] <tarfile|-> [<file>+]

Extracts files from an existing tarfile. If the tarfile is named .tar.gz or .tgz, then it will be uncompressed automatically. If the tarfile is “-”, then it will be read from standard input (stdin) so that minitar may be piped.

The files or directories that will be extracted from the tarfile are specified after the name of the tarfile itself. Directories will be processed recursively. Files must be specified in full. A file “foo/bar/baz.txt” cannot simply be specified by specifying “baz.txt”. Any file not found will simply be skipped and an error will be reported.

extract also supports the uncompress, pipe, and output options.

uncompress: --uncompress (-z), uncompresses the tarfile with gzip.
pipe: --pipe, emits the extracted files to STDOUT for piping.
output: --output (-o), extracts the files to the specified directory.

+minitar list+¶ ↑

minitar list [OPTIONS] <tarfile|-> [<file>+]

Lists files in an existing tarfile. If the tarfile is named .tar.gz or .tgz, then it will be uncompressed automatically. If the tarfile is “-”, then it will be read from standard input (stdin) so that minitar may be piped.

The files or directories to be filtered are specified after the name of the tarfile itself.

Both verbose and progress act as a file detail view, similar to ls -l.

list also supports the uncompress, sort, reverse, and l options.

uncompress: --uncompress -z, uncompresses the tarfile with gzip.
sort: --sort (-S), sorts the list of files by the specified field. Supported sort fields are name (the default), mtime, and size.
reverse: Reverses the sort.
l: Lists the files in detail (like verbose).

minitar-cli Semantic Versioning¶ ↑

The minitar-cli tool uses a Semantic Versioning scheme with one change:

When PATCH is zero (0), it will be omitted from version references.