libarchive.org - libarchive - C library and command-line tools for reading and writing tar, cpio, zip, ISO, and other archive formats @ GitHub

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The source distribution includes the libarchive library, the bsdtar and bsdcpio command-line programs, full test suite, and documentation. Stable release: 3.6.2 (Dec 09, 2022) tar.xz tar.gz zip win64-binary Current Development Sources: Tar.gz of github master branch Zip of github master branch Legacy releases

The libarchive library features: Support for a variety of archive and compression formats . Robust automatic format detection , including archive/compression combinations such as tar.gz. Zero-copy internal architecture for high performance. Streaming architecture eliminates all limits on size of archive, limits on entry sizes depend on particular formats. Carefully factored code to minimize bloat when programs are statically linked. Growing test suite to verify correctness of new ports. Works on most POSIX-

The bsdtar and bsdcpio command-line u1tilities are feature- and performance-competitive with other tar and cpio implementations: Reads a variety of formats, including tar, pax, cpio, zip, xar, lha, ar, cab, mtree, rar, and ISO images. Writes tar, pax, cpio, zip, xar, ar, ISO, mtree, and shar archives. Automatically handles archives compressed with gzip, bzip2, lzip, xz, lzma, or compress. Unique format conversion feature.

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