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# tarmux | ||
A tool to multiplex and demultiplex streams from pipes to tar and back again. | ||
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Tarmux attempts to solve the problem of handling streamed data where there | ||
is insufficient temporary space on disk to hold the data, as is forced by | ||
tar. | ||
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In the simplest invocation, tarmux takes a stream from stdin, and creates | ||
a tar file consisting of sequential numbered file fragments one after the | ||
other. This can be reversed by the tardemux tool, which will untar the | ||
fragments and reassemble the stream to stdout. | ||
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The tardemux tool only reads a single tar stream before exiting. This allows | ||
multiple streams to be concatenated in the same stream, and then split out | ||
by each invocation of tardemux. | ||
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# about tarmux | ||
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Tarmux is written for speed in portable C, and is tested on MacOSX, Redhat | ||
and Ubuntu. Tar mux depends on libarchive http://www.libarchive.org/. | ||
Packaging is available for RPM and Debian/Ubuntu systems. |