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Rubygem-archive-tar-minitar

Jul 20, 2023

Library and command-line utility for tar archives

The minitar previously called ArchiveTarMinitar library is a pure-Ruby library that provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar1 archive files.

This is release 0.6+, providing a number of bug fixes including a directory traversal vulnerability, CVE-2016-10173. This release starts the migration and modernization of the code

  • the minitar command-line program has been separated into the minitar-cli gem; and
  • the archive-tar-minitar gem now points to the minitar and minitar-cli gems and discourages its installation.
Checkout these related ports:
  • Zutils - Utilities for searching in bzip2, gzip, lzip, and xz archives
  • Zstr - C++ header-only ZLib wrapper
  • Zstd - Fast real-time compression algorithm
  • Zpaqfranz - Swiss army knife for the serious backup manager
  • Zopfli - Zopfli Compression Algorithm
  • Zoo - Manipulate archives of files in compressed form
  • Zlib-ng - Fork of the zlib data compression library
  • Zipper - Tool for inspecting the contents of a compressed archive
  • Zipmix - Produce .ZIP file from two other ones with the best compressed files
  • Zip - Create/update ZIP files compatible with PKZIP
  • Zchunk - Compressed file format that splits the file into independent chunks
  • Xpk - The eXternal PacKer (XPK) library system
  • Xmill - Efficient compressor for XML
  • Xdms - Tool for decompressing Amiga DMS files
  • Xarchiver - Desktop-agnostic GTK frontend to various archiving tools