metatar

Manipulate tar file metadata, list tar files or convert tar to cpio. For some projects, this can replace fakeroot and cpio, when creating an initrd image that is compatible with the Linux kernel. Used in production in at least one company.

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32 Watchers

Go Language

bsd-3-clause License

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$411.9K

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$728.5K

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