Package org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar

package org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar

Provides stream classes for reading and writing archives using the TAR format.

There are many different format dialects that call themselves TAR. The classes of this package can read and write archives in the traditional pre-POSIX ustar format and support GNU specific extensions for long file names that GNU tar itself by now refers to as oldgnu.

Related Packages

Package	Description
org.apache.commons.compress.archivers	Provides a unified API and factories for dealing with archives in different formats.

Class	Description
TarArchiveEntry	An entry in a Tar archive.
TarArchiveInputStream	The TarInputStream reads a UNIX tar archive as an InputStream. methods are provided to position at each successive entry in the archive, and the read each entry as a normal input stream using read().
TarArchiveOutputStream	The TarOutputStream writes a UNIX tar archive as an OutputStream.
TarArchiveSparseEntry	A sparse entry in a Tar archive.
TarArchiveStructSparse	A struct sparse in a Tar archive.
TarConstants	This interface contains all the definitions used in the package.
TarFile	Provides random access to UNIX archives.
TarUtils	This class provides static utility methods to work with byte streams.