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uutils tar is a work-in-progress Rust reimplementation of GNU tar, the ubiquitous archiving utility.

This project aims to be a drop-in replacement for GNU tar, supporting the creation, extraction, and manipulation of tar archives across platforms.

> **Note:** This project is still in early development. Many features are not yet implemented and behavior may differ from GNU tar.

# Goals

Implement a cross-platform, memory-safe tar that is compatible with GNU tar archives and command-line interface.

# Contributing

To contribute to uutils tar, please see [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/uutils/tar/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).

# License

uutils tar is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE](https://github.com/uutils/tar/blob/main/LICENSE) file for details.

GNU tar is licensed under the GPL 3.0 or later.