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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 sun-
          tar(1) and exits.

     --xhelp
          Prints a summary of the less important options for sun-
          tar(1) and exits.

     --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

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          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
          rint 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

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     --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).

EXAMPLES

ENVIRONMENT

FILES

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

DIAGNOSTICS

NOTES

     This suntar implementation is based on the star  implementa-
     tion and does not implement all features of the original Sun
     tar program.

     Suntar  -x  is  equivalent   to   star   -xU   -force-remove
     -remove-first -keep-nonempty-dirs

BUGS

AUTHOR

     Joerg Schilling
     D-13353 Berlin
     Germany

     Mail bugs and suggestions to:

     joerg@schily.net

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