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streams stdin of unknown size as a tar to stdout PR: 245748 Submitted by: Igor Ostapenko <igor.ostapenko@pm.me>
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613 B
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Splits stdin of unknown size onto chunks of given size and collects such chunk
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files as a TAR archive what is written to stdout.
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Initial motivation was to use it as a packer of a data stream what pipes it to
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https://tarsnap.com for backup purposes, with a requirement of low and more
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predictable memory consumption. And the problem solved here is that TAR file
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header should specify size of a file, but it's unknown due to the nature of
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input data stream.
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The following real case could be an example:
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$ pg_dump ... | tar_stream_chunker ... | tarsnap -c ... @-
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WWW: https://github.com/ihoro/tar-stream-chunker/
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