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tar

Create, extract, list, and compress tar archives with format support. Use when scanning contents, monitoring sizes, reporting results, alerting corruption.

skill-install — Terminal

Install via CLI (Recommended)

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/bytesagain1/tar
Or

tar

Archive management tool.

Commands

create

Create tar archive (.tar/.tar.gz/.tar.bz2/.tar.xz)

scripts/script.sh create <archive> <files...>

extract

Extract archive contents

scripts/script.sh extract <archive> [dir]

list

List archive contents with details

scripts/script.sh list <archive>

add

Add files to uncompressed .tar archive

scripts/script.sh add <archive.tar> <files...>

info

Show archive metadata (size, entries, format)

scripts/script.sh info <archive>

diff

Compare contents of two archives

scripts/script.sh diff <a1> <a2>

verify

Check archive integrity

scripts/script.sh verify <archive>

find

Search for files matching pattern

scripts/script.sh find <archive> <pattern>

Requirements

  • bash 4.0+

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Add to Configuration

Paste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.

{
  "plugins": {
    "official-bytesagain1-tar": {
      "enabled": true,
      "auto_update": true
    }
  }
}

Tags

#tar#tool#utility
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