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- NAME
- rtar -- read TAR format archive file
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- USAGE
- rtar [ flags ] [ archive ] [ after ] [ files ]
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- PARAMETERS
- .ls 4 -a
- Advance to the archive file named by the \fIafter\fR argument before
- performing the main operation. The extract or list operation will begin with
- the file \fIafter\fR and continue to the end of the archive.
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- .ls 4 -b
- Output only binary byte stream files. By default, \fIrtar\fR outputs text
- files in the host system textfile format. The conversion from the byte stream
- \fItar\fR format to host textfile format may involve modification of the
- file, e.g., conversion from ASCII to EBCDIC. A binary extraction copies
- the file to disk without modification.
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- .ls 4 -d
- Print detailed information about what \fIrtar\fR is doing.
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- .ls 4 -e
- Extract the entire contents of the tape \fIexcluding\fR the files or directories
- listed in \fIfiles\fR.
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- .ls 4 -f filename
- \fIRtar\fR uses the first filename argument as the host filename of the
- archive instead of reading from \fIstdin\fR.
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- .ls 4 -l
- Do not try to resolve file links by a disk to disk file copy. By default,
- if file A appears in the archive as a link to file B,
- \fIrtar\fR trys to resolve the link by performing a disk to disk copy of
- file B to A. This is valid providing file B was present in the archive and
- has already been extracted. If the \fBl\fR flag is present linked files
- will not be extracted.
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- .ls 4 -n
- Do not strip trailing blank lines from text files read from the tape.
- The default is to strip any blank lines at the ends of files.
- This is necessary when the file was written by \fIwtar\fR on a system
- like VMS, where the size of the file is not known before it has been
- read. The \fIwtar\fR utility must guess at the final size and pad the
- file at the end with spaces to ensure that the size of the file actually
- written agrees with the file header.
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- .ls 4 -o
- Omit binary files when performing the extraction. A binary file is any
- file containing ASCII values other than 040 through 0176 (the printable
- ASCII characters), tab, or newline in the first 512 byte block of the file.
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- .ls 4 -p pathprefix
- When creating directories and files from the pathnames recorded in the archive,
- omit the given path prefix if it matches the pathname given in the archive.
- This feature is used to relocate directories, or to read tar archives
- containing absolute pathnames. For example, given "-p /usr/", the archive
- pathname "/usr/me/file" would be written to the file "me/file".
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- .ls 4 -r
- The extracted file replaces any existing file of the same name, i.e.,
- \fIrtar\fR performs a delete before creating the extracted file.
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- .ls 4 -t
- The names of the specified files are listed each time they occur on
- the tape. If no \fIfiles\fR argument is given, all of the names on the tape
- are listed.
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- .ls 4 -v
- Print more information about the tape entries than just their names.
- The verbose file list format gives the file permissions, the link flag
- (zero if there were no links to the file), the owner and group identification
- numbers of the file on the system that wrote the archive, the file size in
- bytes, the date of last modification of the file, and the file name.
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- .ls 4 -x
- The named files are extracted from the tape. If the named file
- matches a directory whose contents had been written onto the tape, this
- directory is (recursively) extracted. The owner, modification time, and mode
- are restored (if possible). If no file argument is given, the entire content
- of the tape is extracted. Note that if multiple entries specifying the same
- file are on the tape, the last one overwrites all earlier.
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- DESCRIPTION
- \fIRtar\fR reads multiple files from a UNIX \fItar\fR format file,
- restoring the files to disk on the local host machine.
- Output filenames are mapped according to the IRAF filenaming conventions
- of the local host operating system.
-
- \fIRtar\fR's actions are controlled by the \fIflags\fR argument.
- \fIFlags\fR consists of a minus sign followed by a string of characters
- containing any combination of the function flags described below.
- Other arguments to \fIrtar\fR are the name of the archive file to be read,
- the name of the file on the archive at which reading is to begin,
- and the names of the files or directories to be read or to be excluded
- from the read. In all cases, appearance of a directory name refers to
- the files and (recursively) subdirectories of that directory.
-
- All \fIrtar\fR filename arguments are IRAF virtual filenames (or host
- filenames), except the prefix strings, which pertain to the tape format
- and hence are UNIX pathnames. Magtape devices may be specified by
- their IRAF logical device name (if the "dev$devices" file is in place
- and is up to date), or by the host device name, prefixed with a "mt.",
- e.g., "mt.MUA1" or "mt./dev/rmt9".
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- If the input archive file is a tape the blocksize must be a multiple
- of 512 bytes, with a maximum blocksize of 10240 bytes. Each archived file
- occupies an integral number of 512 byte blocks in the archive (this is
- required by the \fItar\fR format).
-
- Filenames appearing in the file list are interpreted as prefix strings,
- i.e., a match occurs if the given string is a prefix of an actual filename
- in the archive. If the last character in the \fIfiles\fR filename is
- a \fB$\fR then an exact match is required (excluding the $ metacharacter).
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- DIAGNOSTICS
- A file read error occurring while reading the archive file is fatal unless
- caught and corrected by the host system.
- File header checksum errors result in skipping of the archive file
- currently being read, with execution continuing with the next archive
- file if possible.
- File write errors on the output file are reported but do not cause
- termination of \fIrtar\fR. The output file being written will be corrupted.
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- EXAMPLES
- Since \fIrtar\fR is a bootstrap utility implemented as a foreign task in
- the CL, it may be called either from within the CL (as in the examples),
- or at the host system level. The command syntax is identical on both cases.
-
- 1. List the contents of the disk archive file "arc".
-
- cl> rtar -tvf arc
-
- 2. Unpack the tape archive on drive A in the current directory.
-
- cl> rtar -xf mta
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- BUGS
- The current limit on file name length is 100 characters (this restriction
- is imposed by the standard UNIX \fItar\fR format).
- File links are not recreated.
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- SEE ALSO
- wtar, rmbin
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