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[comment {-*- tcl -*- doctools manpage}]
[manpage_begin tar n 0.1]
[moddesc   {Tar file handling}]
[titledesc {Tar file creation, extraction & manipulation}]
[require Tcl 8.4]
[require tar [opt 0.1]]
[description]


[para]

[list_begin definitions]

[call [cmd ::tar::contents] [arg tarball]]

Returns a list of the files contained in [arg tarball].


[call [cmd ::tar::stat] [arg tarball] [opt file]]

Returns a nested dict containing information on the named [opt file] in [arg tarball],
or all files. the top level are pairs of filename and info. The info is a dict in the form
mode uid gid size mtime type linkname uname gname devmajor devminor

[example {
% ::tar::stat tarball.tar
foo.jpg {mode 0644 uid 1000 gid 0 size 7580 mtime 811903867 type file linkname {} uname user gname wheel devmajor 0 devminor 0}
}]


[call [cmd ::tar::untar] [arg tarball] [arg args]]

Extracts [arg tarball]

[list_begin opt]
[opt_def -dir dirName]
[opt_def -file fileName]
[opt_def -glob pattern]
[opt_def -nooverwrite]
[opt_def -nomtime]
[opt_def -noperms]
[list_end]
[nl]

[call [cmd ::tar::get] [arg tarball] [arg fileName]]

Returns the contents of [arg fileName] from the [arg tarball]

[call [cmd ::tar::create] [arg tarball] [arg files] [arg args]]

Creates a new tar file containing the [arg files]

[list_begin opt]
[opt_def -dereference]
[list_end]
[nl]

[call [cmd ::tar::add] [arg tarball] [arg files] [arg args]]

Appends [arg files] to the end of the existing [arg tarball]

[list_begin opt]
[opt_def -dereference]
[list_end]
[nl]

[list_end]

[keywords tar {tape archive} archive]
[manpage_end]