Free tar software for linux

Archive::TarGzip is a Perl module to save and restore files to and from compressed tape archives (tar).

SYNOPSIS

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# Subroutine Interface
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use Archive::TarGzip qw(parse_header tar untar);

$tar_file = tar(@file, @options);
$tar_file = tar(@file);

$success = untar(@file);
$success = untar(@file, @options);

%tar_header = parse_header($buffer);

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# File subroutines
#
use Archive::TarGzip;

tie *TAR_FILEHANDLE, Tie::Layers
tie *TAR_FILEHANDLE, Tie::Layers, @options

$success = open(TAR_FILEHANDLE, $tar_file);
$success = open(TAR_FILEHANDLE, $mode, $tar_file);

$success = print TAR_FILEHANDLE $file_name;
$success = print TAR_FILEHANDLE $file_name, $file_contents;

%tar_header = ;

$success = close(TAR_FILEHANDLE);

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# Object
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tie *TAR_FILEHANDLE, Tie::Layers;
tie *TAR_FILEHANDLE, Tie::Layers, @options;

$tar = tied *TAR_FILEHANDLE;
$tar = new Archive::TarGzip( );
$tar = new Archive::TarGzip(@options);

$success = $tar->OPEN( $tar_file, @options);
$success = $tar->OPEN( $mode, $tar_file, @options);

$success = $tar->PRINT($file_name);
$success = $tar->PRINT($file_name, $file_contents);

%tar_header = $tar->READLINE(@options);
%tar_header = $tar->READLINE(@file, @options);

$status = $tar->target( $buffer, $size);
$success = $tar->CLOSE();

The Archive::TarGzip module provides tar subroutine to archive a list of files in an archive file in the tar format. The archive file may be optionally compressed using the gzip compression routines. The Archive::TarGzip module also provides a untar subroutine that can extract the files from the tar or tar/gzip archive files. The tar and untar top level subroutines use methods from the Archive::TarGzip class.

The Archive::TarGzip class has many similarities to the very mature Archive::Tar class being at least three years older. The newer Archive::TarGzip relied very heavy on the work of the author of the Archive::Tar and in many instance the Archive::Tar is a better solution.

Altough the underlying tar file format is the same and similar code is used to access the data in the underlying tar files, the interace bewteen the two are completely different. The Archive::TarGzip is built on a Tie File Handle type interface. The nthe Archive::TarGzip provide means to access individual files within the archive file without bringing the entire archive file into memory. When the gzip compression option is active, the compression is performed on the fly without creating an intermediate uncompressed tar file.

dtrx is a tool for Unix-like systems that takes all the hassle out of extracting archives. Heres an example of how you use it:
$ dtrx linux-2.6.10.tar.bz2
Thats basically the same thing as:
$ tar -jxf linux-2.6.10.tar.bz2
Main features:
- Handles many archive types: You only need to remember one simple command to extract tar, zip, cpio, deb, rpm, gz, and bz2 files. If they have any extra compression, like tar.bz2, dtrx will take care of that for you, too.
- Keeps everything organized: dtrx will make sure that archives are extracted into their own dedicated directories.
- Sane permissions: dtrx makes sure you can read and write all the files you just extracted, while leaving the rest of the permissions intact.
- Recursive extraction: dtrx can find archives inside the archive and extract those too.

Baghira is a native style for QT/KDE.

The name refers to the Panther of Kiplings famous Jungle Book (German spelling)

You will probably rather know the Disney version...

Basically its a perky imitation of Apples OSX look.

Installation:

tar -xjf baghira.tar.bz2
cd baghira/baghira
./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix` --disable-debug [--enable-final]
(!!!BEGINNERS: the direction of the accents is _important_ (top-left to bottom-right), the rectangular brackets mean [this is optional] - dont type them!!!)
make
and finally as root:
make install

inetrd provides a redirection super server.
inetrd is a super server like inetd (i.e., it listens on many ports).
Clients connecting can then be redirected to other ports or servers in various ways.
Enhancements:
- Whitespace cleanups.
- Support ; as comment char in ini file.
- Fixed up RPM. rpmbuild -ta inetrd-0.0.3.tar.gz to build rpm.

GDancer is a visualization plugin for XMMS which animates the lovable cartoon character Space Ghost to your favorite MP3s.

You can also have other characters through themes.

Installation

Source

tar xzvf gdancer-0.4.0.tar.gz
cd gdancer-0.4.0
./configure
make
su (It will ask for a password, put in roots password)
make install
exit
(Read the INSTALL file if problems occur)

RPM

su (Will ask for password, enter roots password)
rpm -Uvh gdancer-0.4.0-1.i386.rpm

Xarchiver is a GTK2 only frontend to rar, zip, tar, bzip and gzip.

Xarchiver is a gtk+2 ONLY frontend to zip,rar,tar,bzip2 and gzip. Future releases will support 7zip and distro based packages (rpm,deb).

Xarchiver allows you to create,add, extract and delete files in the above formats.