Unix Tar - built-in?
- Thread starter kainjow
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Darkshadow
wandering shadow
Looks like it's installed with the Developer Tools.
g/re/p
I can haz cigar?
kainjow said:
/usr/bin $ls -lai tar
189149 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 174636 27 May 2004 tar
/usr/bin $ls -lai
189144 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18308 27 May 2004 sum
189145 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14372 16 Dec 01:12 sw_vers
189146 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 147548 27 May 2004 tack
189147 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 23392 27 May 2004 tail
189148 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 26128 27 May 2004 talk
189149 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 174636 27 May 2004 tar
189150 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 142828 27 May 2004 tbl
189151 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 29 Dec 20:35 tclsh -> tclsh8.4
189152 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13796 16 Dec 01:12 tclsh8.4
189153 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14468 27 May 2004 tcopy
189154 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 36684 27 May 2004 tdbbackup
189155 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 36332 27 May 2004 tdbdump
189156 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 40708 5 Nov 23:08 tdbtool
189157 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14156 27 May 2004 tee
Darkshadow
wandering shadow
Looks like zip is installed with the BSD stuff.
BTW, you can look for these in the terminal if you want to - I found tar and zip using these commands:
lsbom -s /Library/Receipts/DeveloperTools.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom | grep -w "tar"
lsbom -s /Library/Receipts/BSD.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom | grep -w "zip"
...and lsbom is one of the "built-in" utilities.
If you didn't install the BSD or DeveloperTools packages, then of course you won't be able to search them, but you can look at the other stuff in /Library/Receipts/ all you want to.
BTW, you can look for these in the terminal if you want to - I found tar and zip using these commands:
lsbom -s /Library/Receipts/DeveloperTools.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom | grep -w "tar"
lsbom -s /Library/Receipts/BSD.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom | grep -w "zip"
...and lsbom is one of the "built-in" utilities.
If you didn't install the BSD or DeveloperTools packages, then of course you won't be able to search them, but you can look at the other stuff in /Library/Receipts/ all you want to.
brianleahy
Colonel Panic
In 10.3.x Finder has the "Create Archive" capability built in - and it produces .zip's
RacerX
Old Rhapsody User
tar has been part of the default installation of every version of NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, Rhapsody and Mac OS X that I've ever seen. The developer tools are not (and have never been) a requirement for using tar.
tar is a universal archiving tool that has been used in the NeXT/Apple community from the start.
The only time you would need to install something extra would be to use it without opening the Terminal. Two apps that have been around since at least OPENSTEP are Scott Anguish's OpenUp and Andrew Stone's PackUp&Go. I keep a copy of both installed on all my OPENSTEP, Rhapsody and Mac OS X systems.
tar is a universal archiving tool that has been used in the NeXT/Apple community from the start.
The only time you would need to install something extra would be to use it without opening the Terminal. Two apps that have been around since at least OPENSTEP are Scott Anguish's OpenUp and Andrew Stone's PackUp&Go. I keep a copy of both installed on all my OPENSTEP, Rhapsody and Mac OS X systems.
RacerX
Old Rhapsody User
tar, gzip and pax are installed on all Mac OS X systems. Apple used to use tar and gzip within packages (.pkg files), but changed to pax and gzip do to licensing reasons (which no one has been able to quite figure outkainjow said:
). And Pages uses gzip within it's file format.I have two systems here, running 10.2.8 and 10.2.6 respectively, which do not have the developer tools installed and have those compression utilities.
What type of program are you making?
Darkshadow
wandering shadow
Well, what do you know, you are right, Racer. In my defense, though, the Developer Tools also installs a version of tar - not sure if it's the same version that's installed with the Base System or a newer one.
However, gzip is part of the BSD install, not the base install - and some people decide to skip up on that.
It looks like libz is installed with the Essential.pkg, though, which is all (I think) any app needs to be able to read/write gzip formats. So I think decompressing gzipped tar files would work with a bare install.
However, gzip is part of the BSD install, not the base install - and some people decide to skip up on that.
It looks like libz is installed with the Essential.pkg, though, which is all (I think) any app needs to be able to read/write gzip formats. So I think decompressing gzipped tar files would work with a bare install.
Darkshadow
wandering shadow
Look at /Library/Receipts, and see if you have a package there named BSD.pkg.
Darkshadow
wandering shadow
Just curious.