hstar: Haskell version of tar CLI utility

[ archive, bsd3, codec, program, tar ] [ Propose Tags ]

Haskell implementation of the tar utility, backed by libarchive.

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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

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0.1.0.6

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
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 (>=0.1.1.0), lzlib (>=1.0.1.0), 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
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)
Uploaded	by vmchale at 2024-04-13T16:30:48Z
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Executables	hstar
Downloads	1203 total (31 in the last 30 days)
Rating	2.0 (votes: 1) [estimated by Bayesian average]
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hstar

hstar is a command-line tool like tar, with several more features.

Use
Features
- Compression
Performance

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