<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Dirk Willems <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dirk.willems@exitas.be" target="_blank">dirk.willems@exitas.be</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hello,</p>
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<p>maybe a strange question but I was looking for the version of tar
if its possible ?</p>
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<p>I tried some things but not exactly what I want, also looked in
the pkg list but I didn't seem to find it ?<br>
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<p><br></p></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi Dirk,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">/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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Someone with deeper Solaris/UNIX history knowledge could probably share some insights. :)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Eric</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing)#Key_implementations">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing)#Key_implementations</a></div></div></div></div>