Package bsdtar-2.7.0-2

The bsdtar program is FreeBSD's modern implementation of tar based on libarchive. It started as a test harness, but has grown into a feature-competitive replacement for GNU tar. Following formats are supported ('r' for reading and 'w' for writing). On read, compression and format are always detected automatically. [rw] gzip compression [rw] bzip2 compression [rw] compress/LZW compression [rw] lzma and xz compression [r ] GNU tar format (including GNU long filenames, long link names, and sparse files) [r ] Solaris 9 extended tar format (including ACLs) [r ] Old V7 tar archives [rw] POSIX 1003.1-1988 ustar [rw] POSIX 1003.1-2001 pax interchange format (indeed extended ustar) [ w] "restricted" pax format, which will create ustar archives except for entries that require pax extensions (for long filenames, ACLs, etc). [rw] POSIX octet-oriented cpio ("odc") [rw] SVR4 ASCII cpio ("newc") [r ] Binary cpio (big-endian or little-endian) [r ] ISO9660 CD-ROM images (with optional Rockridge or Joliet extensions) [r ] ZIP archives (with uncompressed or "deflate" compressed entries) [ w] shar archives [rw] GNU and BSD 'ar' archives [rw] 'mtree' format

You can usually use bsdtar and bsdcpio in the same way to GNU tar and cpio but there are some differences. Read bsdtar(1) and bsdcpio(1) manpage for details.