Re: [Bug-tar] Workaround for extracting archives sparsely

[Joerg Schilling]

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> A few weeks ago I suggested that tar be given the ability to extract files
> from archives sparsely. That is, files which contain runs of all-zero
> bytes would be extracted as sparse files. [That's useful for saving disk
> space, reducing disk I/O and making extracted files faster to work with.]
>
> Currently neither GNU tar nor star can do that, but the FreeBSD version of
> tar can. It's in the bsdtar package in Debian-based Linux distributions.

Star does this since 1990.

Use star -x -force-hole

Jörg

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