TARTEST(1)

bestie, welcome to tartest(1), brought to you by Schily´s USER COMMANDS 💖✨ this little icon is literally a tar-archive vibe checker, and we’re gonna read the whole thing together, no skips, periodt.

🌸 NAME 🌸

tartest — test tar archive for POSIX.1-1990 compliance 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so it takes `[ options ]` and reads from `< file` — yes, that’s stdin energy 🫶

# 💅 DESCRIPTION 💅
`Tartest` reads a tar archive from stdin and checks this archive for compliance with POSIX.1-1990. that’s the whole main-character job, bestie 💅✨

# 🎀 OPTIONS 🎀
all options can be abbreviated by their first letter, so yes you can be lazy in a first-letter kind of way 😌

- **`-help`** — prints a short help message. helpful icon behavior 💖
- **`-v`** — prints all filenames during verification. verbose-ish and lowkey useful 🦋

# 🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋
literally `none` — no environment variables are listed here, bestie 💀✨

# 🍓 FILES 🍓
also literally `none` — no files are listed here 🍓

# 🔥 NOTES 🔥
> because `tartest` is limited to testing the data that is delivered by the tar archiver that is going to be checked, it cannot test if the tar archiver in question will produce correct archives under all circumstances. there may be borderline cases that trigger bugs in the tar archiver 😭

so like, it’s not a full fortune-teller for every possible tar behavior — it checks the data it gets, and that’s the boundary, periodt.

if you want a more complete test, you should have a look at the file `READE.quicktest` in the directory `testscripts` of either the star distribution or the ftp server 👀✨

# 💀 BUGS 💀
this section exists, but there is no bug content listed under it in the original, so there’s nothing to report here — just the empty section, bestie 🫶

xoxo 💖 — this manual page is by **Joerg Schilling**, dated **02/06/23**, for **TARTEST(1)**. go check those archives, bestie 🎀✨