The source distribution includes the libarchive library, the bsdtar and bsdcpio command-line programs, full test suite, and documentation:
- Stable release: libarchive-2.8.0.tar.gz libarchive-2.8.0.zip
The libarchive library features:
- Support for a variety of archive and compression formats.
- Robust automatic format detection, including archive/compression combinations such as tar.gz.
- Zero-copy internal architecture for high performance.
- Streaming architecture eliminates all limits on size of archive, limits on entry sizes depend on particular formats.
- Carefully factored code to minimize bloat when programs are statically linked.
- Growing test suite to verify correctness of new ports.
- Works on most POSIX-like systems (including FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, etc.)
- Supports Windows, including Cygwin, MinGW, and Visual Studio.
The bsdtar and bscpio command-line utilities are feature- and performance-competitive with other tar and cpio implementations:
- Reads a variety of formats, including tar, pax, cpio, zip, xar, and ISO images.
- Writes tar, pax, cpio, zip, and shar archives.
- Full automatic format detection when reading archives, including compressed archives.
- Unique format conversion feature.
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