@hackage hstar0.1.0.3

Haskell version of tar CLI utility

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    • Package Flags

      development
       (off by default)

      Enable `-Werror`

      pure
       (off by default)

      Use Haskell backend instead of libarchive

      tar-bytestring
       (off by default)

      Use tar-bytestring

      with-brotli
       (on by default)

      Enable brotli compression support

      with-snappy
       (off by default)

      Enable snappy support

hstar

hstar is a command-line tool like tar, but written in Haskell and taking advantage of backpack.

It can be built with a libarchive backend wrapping the C library, or the tar library written in Haskell.

Use

To generate bash shell completions:

hstar --bash-completion-script hstar

Performance

Benchmarks run on Linux.

hstar built with the libarchive backend.

Program Compression Command Time
bsdtar lz4 bsdtar -xf ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.lz4 2.411 s
hstar lz4 hstar unpack ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.lz4 2.529 s
GNU tar lz4 lz4 -cd ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.lz4 | tar -xf - 2.539 s
Schily tar lz4 lz4 -cd ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.lz4 | star -xf - 1.572 s
bsdtar gzip bsdtar -xf ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.gz 4.625 s
hstar gzip hstar unpack ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.gz 6.378 s
GNU tar gzip tar xf ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.gz 8.335 s
Schily tar gzip star xf ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.gz 8.379 s
bsdtar lzip bsdtar -xf ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.lz 12.49 s
hstar lzip hstar unpack ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.lz 16.12 s
GNU tar lzip tar xf ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.lz 16.71 s
Schily tar lzip star xf ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.lz 15.81 s
bsdtar lzma bsdtar -xf ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.xz 14.95 s
hstar lzma hstar unpack ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.xz 15.37 s
GNU tar lzma tar xf ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.xz 14.32 s
Schily tar lzma star xf ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.xz 14.37 s
bsdtar bzip2 bsdtar -xf ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.bz2 37.85 s
hstar bzip2 hstar unpack ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.bz2 38.99 s
GNU tar bzip2 tar xf ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.bz2 37.90 s
Schily tar bzip2 star xf ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.bz2 38.27 s
bsdtar zstd bsdtar -xf ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.zst 2.232 s
hstar zstd hstar unpack ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.zst 3.053 s
GNU tar zstd tar xf ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.zst 2.644 s
Schily tar zstd star xf ghc-8.8.2-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.zst 2.237 s