How to create a Tar file in Java

[Satish Kulkarni]

Hi,
Does anybody have an idea of how to create to tar file in Java.

Thanks

-Satish

[Srinivasa Raghavan]

Originally posted by Satish Kulkarni:

Does anybody have an idea of how to create to tar file in Java.

Thanks

-Satish

Normally i user jar -cvf .... with a .tar extension

[Tony Morris]

Normally i user jar -cvf .... with a .tar extension

This is either a joke or a 'red herring' (false information) - I can't tell which.

You need to use a third party library.
Here is one that I have used before:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/compress/apidocs/org/apache/commons/compress/tar/class-use/TarInputStream.html

[Stefan Wagner]

You may create an uncompressed archive (-0) without Manifest (-M) with

jar -cf0M myArch.zip *.txt

which will be similar to a tar-Archive, but not compatible; you may not extract it with (un)tar.
[ October 30, 2004: Message edited by: Stefan Wagner ]