Installation

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macOS

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brew install gnu-tar

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Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

GNU version of the tar archiving utility

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

gtar

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

GNU tar is the GNU archiving program for creating, listing, updating, and extracting tar archives. It is one of the package ecosystem's foundational tools because source releases, backups, and portable file bundles often travel as tar archives.

Projektgeschichte

The GNU tar README says GNU tar is derived from John Gilmore's public-domain tar. The GNU tar manual credits John Gilmore as the original author, Jay Fenlason and Joy Kendall for GNU enhancements, and later maintenance by Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG, Francois Pinard, Paul Eggert, and Sergey Poznyakoff with many contributors.

GNU tar development also reflects the long evolution of archive formats and recovery needs. The manual notes that active development and maintenance resumed after the project was put on CVS at Savannah in July 2003, and it credits Sergey Poznyakoff with POSIX archive support.

Adoptionsgeschichte

tar began as a tape archiver, but GNU tar helped make tar archives a routine interchange format for free software. The GNU manual explicitly notes that the GNU Project distributes software bundled into tar archives so related files can move as a single unit, a practice that made tarballs central to source distribution and package building.

Wie es verwendet wird

Practitioners use GNU tar to create and extract source tarballs, preserve directory trees, list archive contents, append or update members, stream archives through pipes, and combine archiving with compression tools. System administrators also use GNU tar for full and incremental backups, including snapshot-file workflows with --listed-incremental.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

GNU tar is package-nerd bedrock: release artifacts, distro build recipes, reproducible archives, vendor source bundles, and backup scripts all depend on tar behavior. Details such as pax headers, sparse files, compression integration, path handling, and incremental metadata are small options with large consequences for reproducibility and restore safety.

Zeitleiste

1980s: GNU tar grew from John Gilmore's public-domain tar into a GNU-maintained archiver.
2003: GNU tar was put on CVS at Savannah and active maintenance resumed.
2021: Version 1.34 notes record extraction and permission-handling fixes.
2023: Version 1.35 notes include compatibility and backup-related fixes.
2026: Git NEWS for 1.35.90 describes reproducibility work, extraction safety fixes, and performance improvements.

Related projects

GNU tar is tightly related to gzip, bzip2, xz, cpio, rmt, POSIX pax archives, source-release tooling, and package-manager build systems.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

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Risikoklassifikator

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Warum

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Signale

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Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 10 Plattformziele verfügbar.

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Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`gtar`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

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Seite generiert2026-07-10

Manager-Version1.35

Manager aktualisiert

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamnot checked

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/

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InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/none Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:gnu-tar
Version	1.35
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gnu-tar
Homepage	https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
Repository	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node
Lizenz	GPL-3.0-or-later
Quellarchiv	https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.35.tar.gz
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert
Einschränkungen	GNU "tar" has been installed as "gtar". If you need to use it as "tar", you can add a "gnubin" directory to your PATH from your bashrc like: PATH="$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/gnu-tar/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	gnu-tar
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

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Combined YAML source

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combined/gnu-tar.yml

Verwendete Quellen

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package version freshness
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