vi-bulchandani/tar-command

An archiving tool written in bash for archiving and unarchiving .tar files.

tar-command

An archiving tool written in bash for archiving and unarchiving .tar files.

Supported flags and usage

./tar.sh [-cvf| -cf] <TARFILE>  {FILE1 FILE2 .....}
./tar.sh [-xvf| -xf| -tvf| -tf] <TARFILE>
-cvf        archive files verbose
-cf         archive files
-tvf        list files verbose
-tf         list files
-xvf        extract files verbose
-xf         extract files

Dependencies

gcc/g++ is required to be on the system and available on PATH.

Limitations

• files to be archived must be in the same folder as the script
• no spaces in filenames
• no binary files(images, videos) should be supplied