Class: Archiverb::Tar

Inherits:

Archiverb

• Object
• Archiverb
• Archiverb::Tar

Defined in:

lib/archiverb/tar.rb

Overview

GNU tar implementation

See Also:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(file_format)
• http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Standard.html
• http://www.subspacefield.org/~vax/tar_format.html

Constant Summary

TMAGIC =

'ustar'

TVERSION =

"00"

OLDGNU_MAGIC =

"ustar  \0"

REGTYPE =

regular file

'0'

AREGTYPE =

regular file

"\0"

LNKTYPE =

link

'1'

SYMTYPE =

reserved (symlink)

'2'

CHRTYPE =

character special

'3'

BLKTYPE =

block special

'4'

DIRTYPE =

directory

'5'

FIFOTYPE =

FIFO special

'6'

CONTTYPE =

reserved (contiguous file)

'7'

XHDTYPE =

extended header referring to next file in archive

'x'

XGLTYPE =

global extended header

'g'

Constants inherited from Archiverb

VERSION

Method Summary

Methods inherited from Archiverb

#[], #add, #count, #each, #files, #initialize, #names, #path, #read, #write

Constructor Details

This class inherits a constructor from Archiverb