Hello everyone,
Yesterday, out of frustration and boredom, I started a minimalistic
implementation of tar in Go which I named rat ('tar' reversed, but also
'ridiculously abysmal tar'). Today, I reached a point where I can show that
piece of software to you.
It currently supports the tar operations c, t and x (which makes it a bit more
useful than sltar) and the options -f, -C, -v, -z and -j (for decompression
only). Since the Go standard library already comes with implementations of the
gzip and bzip2 algorithms, no external binaries for compression/decompression
are necessary.
You can find the current source code here:
https://github.com/akrennmair/rat
Feedback and patches are welcome.
Best regards,
Andreas
