Introduction

The libarchive library features:

Support for a variety of archive and compression formats.
Robust automatic format detection, including archive/compression combinations such as tar.gz.
Zero-copy internal architecture for high performance.
Streaming architecture eliminates all limits on size of archive, limits on entry sizes depend on particular formats.
Carefully factored code to minimize bloat when programs are statically linked.
Growing test suite to verify correctness of new ports.
Works on most POSIX-like systems (including FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, etc.)
Supports Windows, including Cygwin, MinGW, and Visual Studio.
The bsdtar and bsdcpio command-line utilities are feature- and performance-competitive with other tar and cpio implementations:
Reads a variety of formats, including:
- tar
- pax
- cpio
- zip
- xar
- lha
- ar
- cab
- mtree
- rar
- ISO images.
Writes tar
- pax
- cpio
- zip
- xar
- ar
- ISO
- mtree
- shar archives.
Automatically handles archives compressed with gzip, bzip2, lzip, xz, lzma, or compress.
Unique format conversion feature.

Website

[http://libarchive.org/](Official Website)

x86_64

module load site-local

Compiled with:

module load libagg/2.5/1

None required.

Partially tested.