[OmniOS-discuss] tar version of OmniOSCE

[Dirk Willems]

Thank you very much for clarifying.


Kind Regards,


Dirk


On 21-08-17 18:09, Eric Sproul wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Dirk Willems <dirk.willems at exitas.be 
> <mailto:dirk.willems at exitas.be>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>
>     maybe a strange question but I was looking for the version of tar
>     if its possible ?
>
>
>     I tried some things but not exactly what I want, also looked in
>     the pkg list but I didn't seem to find it ?
>
>
> ​Hi Dirk,
> /usr/bin/tar ​is part of the core operating system 
> package, pkg://omnios/SUNWcs.  It is "Solaris tar", which was derived 
> from version 7 UNIX a long time ago [1].  As such, I'm not aware that 
> it was ever versioned separately from the Solaris OS, nor from 
> illumos, as a fork of OpenSolaris.
>
> Someone with deeper Solaris/UNIX history knowledge could probably 
> share some insights. :)
> Eric
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing)#Key_implementations 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_%28computing%29#Key_implementations>
>
>
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