NAME
itar - indexed TAR creator/extractor
SYNOPSIS
itar -t [-i INDEXFILE] TARFILE
itar -c [-i INDEXFILE] TARFILE FILES
itar [-i INDEXFILE] [-k KEY | -o OFFSET] TARFILE FILES...
DESCRIPTION
itar is an indexed TAR creator/extractor. If used without -t nor -c options, FILES are extracted from TARFILE. You can seek by a KEY or by an OFFSET, elsewhere each file itself is seeked. Manual seeking (with -k or -o) is just for debugging
OPTIONS
- TARFILE
-
specify the .tar.bz2 tarball.
- -t
-
list member files of TARFILE.
- -c
-
create TARFILE, adding FILES to it.
- -i INDEXFILE
-
specify the index file. If this option is not used, TARFILE.i is assumed.
- -k KEY
-
specify KEY.
- -o OFFSET
-
specify OFFSET.
AUTHOR
iTar was written by Muayyad Saleh AlSadi <[email protected]>
Home page: http://thwab.net
This manual page was written by Ahmed El-Mahmoudy <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).