stunar(1)

NAME

suntar - create tape archives and add or extract files

suntar  command [ options ] file1 ... filen

The extended options are options taken from star.

--help Prints a summary of the most important options for
suntar(1) and exits.
--xhelp: Prints a summary of the less important options for; suntar(1) and exits.
--version: Prints the suntar version number string and exists.
--debug: print additional debug messages
xdebug=#
xd=# set extended debug level
-/ don't strip leading '/'s from file names
-.. don't skip filenames that contain '..' in non-in
teractive extract
--secure-links: don't 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)
--time print timing info
--no-statistics: do not 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
-z pipe input/output through gzip, does not work on
tapes
--bz pipe input/output through bzip2, does not work on
tapes
The options above are not defined by Sun tar.
For a complete documentation of the star based optione
check star(1).

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(4/5), rcmd(3), fssnap(1m)

Joerg Schilling
Seestr. 110
D-13353 Berlin
Germany

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