qtar(1)

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💖 qtar — a somewhat shorter tar invocation 💖

okay bestie, so this is qtar from the hxtools crew, and it's literally just tar but with fewer keystrokes and more vibes. no cap. ✨

🌸 SYNTAX 🌸

qtar [-x] [--ext|--svn] archive_file [tar-options...]  files...

like, you give it an archive file, you give it some files, you can pass extra tar options along for the ride, and it handles the rest. main character energy tbh. 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -x — bestie this one excludes all those SCM directories you do NOT want in your tarball: "CVS", ".svn", ".hg" and ".git". gone. blocked. not invited to the party. 💅
  • --ext — sorts your files by extension. so all the .c files hang out together, all the .h files hang out together, etc. organized queen behavior. 🎀
  • --svn — this one sorts files so that file.c and .svn/file.c end up right next to each other 🫶. the reason is lowkey iconic: in SVN checkout tar archives, the .svn file is often literally a copy of the former, so putting them side by side gives you way better compression. it's giving compression slay. 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the whole page bestie!! 🦋 this lil cutie comes from hxtools, version dated 2013-08-06, so go forth and tar responsibly ✨🌸💖

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