erl_tar

erl_tar

Module

erl_tar

Module summary

Unix 'tar' utility for reading and writing tar archives

Description

The erl_tar module archives and extract files to and from a tar file. erl_tar supports the ustar format (IEEE Std 1003.1 and ISO/IEC 9945-1). All modern tar programs (including GNU tar) can read this format. To ensure that that GNU tar produces a tar file that erl_tar can read, give the --format=ustar option to GNU tar.

By convention, the name of a tar file should end in ".tar". To abide to the convention, you'll need to add ".tar" yourself to the name.

Tar files can be created in one operation using the create/2 or 登录查看完整内容