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hstar: Haskell version of tar CLI utility
hstar: Haskell version of tar CLI utility
Flags
Automatic Flags
| Name | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| with-brotli | Enable brotli compression support | Enabled |
| with-snappy | Enable snappy support | Disabled |
Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info
Downloads
- hstar-0.1.0.7.tar.gz [browse] (Cabal source package)
- Package description (as included in the package)
Maintainer's Corner
For package maintainers and hackage trustees
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| Versions [RSS] | 0.1.0.0, 0.1.0.1, 0.1.0.2, 0.1.0.3, 0.1.0.4, 0.1.0.5, 0.1.0.6, 0.1.0.7 |
|---|---|
| Change log | CHANGELOG.md |
| Dependencies | base (>=4.11 && <5), brotli, bytestring, bz2 (>=1.0.0.0), composition-prelude, dir-traverse (>=0.2.2.0), libarchive (>=3.0.0.0), lz4-hs (>=0.1.4.0), lzlib (>=1.0.7.0), lzma-static, lzo (>=0.1.1.0), optparse-applicative, process (>=1.4.3.0), snappy-lazy, zlib, zstd [details] |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Copyright | Copyright: (c) 2019-2020 Vanessa McHale |
| Author | Vanessa McHale |
| Maintainer | vamchale@gmail.com |
| Uploaded | by vmchale at 2024-10-21T11:01:18Z |
| Category | Codec, Tar, Archive |
| Bug tracker | https://github.com/vmchale/archive-backpack/issues |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://github.com/vmchale/archive-backpack(hstar) |
| Distributions | |
| Executables | hstar |
| Downloads | 1493 total (24 in the last 30 days) |
| Rating | 2.0 (votes: 1) [estimated by Bayesian average] |
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| Status | Docs pending Build status unknown [no reports yet] |
Readme for hstar-0.1.0.7
[back to package description]hstar
hstar is a command-line tool like tar,
with several more features.
Use
To generate bash shell completions:
hstar --bash-completion-script hstar
Features
Unlike other tar implementations, hstar has the sanitize subcommand which
converts a file into a pax-compatible archive and the lint subcommand which
points out suspicious archives.
hstar can change the compression based on command-line flags, like bsdtar
and arc (this feature is missing from GNU tar, busybox tar, and seemingly Schily tar).
Compression
hstar has near-parity with other command-line tar implementations with respect to compression support.
| Program | lzop | lzip | lzma | gzip | bzip2 | zstd | lz4 | brotli | snappy | lrzip | grzip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bsdtar | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||
| hstar | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ½ | |
| arc | x | x | x | x | ½ | x | |||||
| Schily tar | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||
| busybox tar | x | x | x | ||||||||
| python3 tar module | x | x | x | ||||||||
| GNU tar | x | x | x | x | x | x |
Performance
Benchmarks run on Linux. Performance should be near GNU tar, bsdtar, or Schily tar.
| Program | Compression | Command | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| bsdtar | zstd | bsdtar -xf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.zst |
61.28 ms |
| hstar | zstd | hstar unpack sparc64-linux-dist.tar.zst |
69.63 ms |
| GNU tar | zstd | tar xf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.zst |
303.8 ms |
| Schily tar | zstd | star xf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.zst |
291.0 ms |
| bsdtar | lzip | bsdtar -xf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.lz |
345.3 ms |
| hstar | lzip | hstar unpack sparc64-linux-dist.tar.lz |
433.2 ms |
| GNU tar | lzip | tar xf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.lz |
456.8 ms |
| Schily tar | lzip | star xf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.lz |
440.0 ms |
| busybox tar | lzip | lzip -cd sparc64-linux-dist.tar.lz | busybox tar xf - |
481.0 ms |
| busybox tar | zstd | zstd -cd sparc64-linux-dist.tar.zst | busybox tar xf - |
319.0 ms |
| python3 tar | gzip | python3 -m tarfile -e sparc64-linux-dist.tar.gz |
245.3 ms |
| bsdtar | gzip | bsdtar -xf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.gz |
122.8 ms |
| hstar | gzip | hstar unpack sparc64-linux-dist.tar.gz |
172.4 ms |
| GNU tar | gzip | tar xf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.gz |
233.9 ms |
| Schily tar | gzip | star xf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.gz |
234.8 ms |
| arc | gzip | arc -overwrite unarchive sparc64-linux-dist.tar.gz |
362.0 ms |
| python3 tar | lzma | python3 -m tarfile -e sparc64-linux-dist.tar.xz |
414.9 ms |
| bsdtar | lzma | bsdtar -xf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.xz |
349.4 ms |
| hstar | lzma | hstar unpack sparc64-linux-dist.tar.xz |
360.6 ms |
| GNU tar | lzma | tar xf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.xz |
364.3 ms |
| Schily tar | lzma | star xf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.xz |
353.6 ms |
| arc | lzma | arc -overwrite unarchive sparc64-linux-dist.tar.xz |
1.191 s |
| python3 tar | bzip2 | python3 -m tarfile -e sparc64-linux-dist.tar.bz2 |
1.242 s |
| bsdtar | bzip2 | bsdtar -xf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.bz2 |
1.149 s |
| hstar | bzip2 | hstar unpack sparc64-linux-dist.tar.bz2 |
1.136 s |
| GNU tar | bzip2 | tar xf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.bz2 |
1.092 s |
| Schily tar | bzip2 | star xf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.bz2 |
1.103 s |
| arc | bzip2 | arc -overwrite unarchive sparc64-linux-dist.tar.bz2 |
2.544 s |
| busybox tar | gzip | busybox tar xzf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.gz |
307.5 ms |
| busybox tar | bzip2 | busybox tar xjf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.bz2 |
1.018 s |
| busybox tar | lzma | busybox tar xJf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.xz |
385.6 ms |
| bsdtar | lz4 | bsdtar -xf sparc64-linux-dist.tar.lz4 |
40.69 ms |
| hstar | lz4 | hstar unpack sparc64-linux-dist.tar.lz4 |
49.87 ms |
| busybox tar | lz4 | lz4 -cd sparc64-linux-dist.tar.lz4 | busybox tar xf - |
56.00 ms |
| GNU tar | lz4 | lz4 -cd sparc64-linux-dist.tar.lz4 | tar xf - |
39.19 ms |
| Schily tar | lz4 | lz4 -cd sparc64-linux-dist.tar.lz4 | star xf - |
30.88 ms |