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GNU version of the tar archiving utility

the gnutar program creates, adds files to, or extracts files from an archive file in gnutar format, called a tarfile. A tarfile is often a magnetic tape, but can be a floppy diskette or any regular disk file.

Version: 1.35 License: GPL-3+ GitHub
Maintainers No Maintainer
Categories archivers
Homepage https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
Platforms darwin
Variants
  • universal (Build for multiple architectures)

"gnutar" depends on

lib (2)
extract (1)
xz
build (6)

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Port notes

The tool provided by GNU Tar are prefixed with the character 'g' by default to distinguish them from the BSD commands.
For example, tar becomes gtar.

If you want to use the GNU tools by default, add this directory to the front of your PATH environment variable:
${prefix}/libexec/gnubin/


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