libarchive / libarchive

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C library for reading and writing streaming archives in many formats, plus bsdtar, bsdcpio, bsdcat, and bsdunzip tools built on it.

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Portable, efficient C library that handles tar, cpio, zip, ISO9660, RAR, 7zip, XAR, CAB and compressed streams through one streaming API. Ships the bsdtar and bsdcpio command-line tools, which are the default tar and cpio on FreeBSD and macOS.

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GNU tarzliblibzip7-ZipInfo-ZIP

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Created2012-01-19 (14y ago)

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7zip archiving backup bz2 cab cpio gz iso9660 libarchive lzma posix rar tar xar xz zip zstd

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