Star Utility

Introduction

Star (Simple Star) is a command-line utility designed to perform various operations on archives. It provides functionality to create, extract, list, delete, update, and pack archive files. Additionally, it supports verbose progress reporting and appending contents to an archive.

Usage

To use Star, follow the instructions below:

Building

Before using Star, you need to build it. Use the provided Makefile to compile the source code. Run the following command:

make build

This command will compile the source code and generate an executable named star in the bin directory.

Command Syntax

The general syntax for running Star is:

star [OPTIONS] [FILES...]

Here, OPTIONS represent the various flags that control the operation of Star, and FILES are the files to be processed.

Examples

Here are some examples of using Star:

• Create a new archive:

  star -cvf archive.tar file1.txt file2.txt

• Extract files from an archive:

  star -xvf archive.tar

• List the contents of an archive:

  star -tvf archive.tar

• Delete files from an archive:

  star --delete -vf archive.tar file1.txt

• Update the contents of an archive:

  star -uvf archive.tar file1.txt file2.txt

• Display a verbose progress report:

  star -v -cf archive.tar file1.txt file2.txt

• Append contents to an archive:

  star -rvf archive.tar file3.txt file4.txt

• Pack the contents of an archive (not present in tar):

  star -pvf archive.tar

For more information on available options, you can use the -h or --help flag:

star --help