Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Re: tar command

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 12:32:19PM +0000, Dirty Dawn wrote:

> Hi,
>
> in bsdtar and gtar is possible to select the format with --format flag.
> It seems that openbsd tar uses the ustar (aka POSIX) format.
> I wasn't able to find any information about.
> It could be taken for granted that format is ustar?
>
> Thank you
>
>

tar(1) refers to pax(1) which has all the details.

-Otto

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