Interesting example, thanks!
There are generic tools like "unar", but it's interesting that in the BSD world tar grew those features instead. An odd counterpoint to the accusations of "bloat" often leveled at GNU.
There are generic tools like "unar", but it's interesting that in the BSD world tar grew those features instead. An odd counterpoint to the accusations of "bloat" often leveled at GNU.
e.g. instead of:
440K gtar
151K gcpio
144K unzip
Base has: 655K libarchive.so.6
57K bsdtar
37K bsdcpio
20K unzip
34K bigger, much wider format support, and directly usable by other tools like pkg and ar, as well as third party apps like tarsnap and cmake.