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libtar

C library for manipulating POSIX tar files

  • Library
  • LIBRARY
  • ARCHIVE
  • Dev
  • Dependency only
official+codex · reviewed · May 28, 2026 description in en

Description

A C library for reading and writing POSIX tar archives, used by backup, packaging, installation, and file-management tools.

It is archive-handling infrastructure. Applications using it can create or extract many files at once, so they should handle paths and permissions carefully when processing untrusted archives.

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