---
name: "suntar"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "star"
version: "1.5a67-1"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/suntar"
---

# suntar(1)

create tape archives and add or extract files

## 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

## EXTENDED OPTIONS

The extended options are options taken from **star**.

- **--help**

  Prints a summary of the most important options for [**suntar**(1)](/suntar/1.md) and exits.

- **--xhelp**

  Prints a summary of the less important options for [**suntar**(1)](/suntar/1.md) 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-interactive 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)](/star/1.md).

## EXAMPLES

## ENVIRONMENT

## FILES

## SEE ALSO

[**spax**(1)](/spax/1.md), [**suntar**(1)](/suntar/1.md), [**scpio**(1)](/scpio/1.md), [**tar**(1)](/tar/1.md), [**cpio**(1)](/cpio/1.md), [**pax**(1)](/pax/1.md), [**rcp**(1)](/rcp/1.md), [**mt**(1)](/mt/1.md), **rmt**(1), [**match**(1)](/match/1.md), [**dd**(1)](/dd/1.md), [**sdd**(1)](/sdd/1.md), [**rsh**(1)](/rsh/1.md), [**ssh**(1)](/ssh/1.md), [**star**(1)](/star/1.md), **star**(4/5), [**rcmd**(3)](/rcmd/3.md), **fssnap**(1m)

## DIAGNOSTICS

## NOTES

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

## BUGS

## AUTHOR

```
Joerg Schilling
Seestr. 110
D-13353 Berlin
Germany
```

Mail bugs and suggestions to:

**schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de** or **js@cs.tu-berlin.de** or **joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de**