---
name: "itar"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "thwab-lib"
version: "1.1.2-1"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/itar"
---

# itar(1)

indexed TAR creator/extractor

## 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*.

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  ## AUTHOR

iTar was written by Muayyad Saleh AlSadi \<alsadi@gmail.com\>

Home page: http://thwab.net

This manual page was written by Ahmed El-Mahmoudy \<aelmahmoudy@users.sourceforge.net\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).