metatar
Manipulate tar file metadata, list tar files or convert tar to cpio. For some projects, this can replace fakeroot and cpio, when creating an initrd image that is compatible with the Linux kernel. Used in production in at least one company. (by xyproto)
archiver
Easily create & extract archives, and compress & decompress files of various formats (by mholt)
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| metatar | archiver | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | |
| 31 | 4,228 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.2 | 5.2 | |
| about 2 months ago | 16 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
metatar
Posts with mentions or reviews of metatar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-15.
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Way to organize / catalogue / consolidate 40 drives logically
Method 9: Extract metadata from tar into YAML https://github.com/xyproto/metatar
archiver
Posts with mentions or reviews of archiver.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-07.
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Ouch - simple compression and decompression for your terminal
archiver is also a very cool tool. I think its cli is somewhat similar to this.
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folder to zip
https://github.com/mholt/archiver has a lot of helpers. Probably a good place to start.
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Wormhole-gui 2.2.0 has been released
The next major release, v2.2.0, is out now. Most notably, this release replaces mholt/archiver with a custom zip extractor for faster directory receives and smaller binaries, adds settings for controlling advanced wormhole client options and a lot of smaller bug fixes. This release also incorporates the initial support for building on Apple M1 computers (release binaries for that architecture are currently not available though).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing metatar and archiver you can also consider the following projects:
common - Location for shared common files in github.com/containers repos.
autoflags - Populate go command line app flags from config struct
common - Developer tooling framework
afero - A FileSystem Abstraction System for Go
afs - Abstract File Storage
fx - A dependency injection based application framework for Go.
go-types - Golang types convertion library
vfs for golang - Virtual filesystem library written in golang
jobs - A persistent and flexible background jobs library for go.
xstrings - Implements string functions widely used in other languages but absent in Go.
notify - File system event notification library on steroids.
go.uuid - UUID package for Go