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Xsparse is an auxiliary program that expands condensed sparse
files back to their original state. You will need this utility if you have
a POSIX archive, created by GNU tar, which contains
sparse members and need to extract
files from this archive using a third-party tar, that does not support sparse
extensions.
The utility is distributed in source form: xsparse.c.
To compile the utility, run
cc -oxsparse xsparse.c
Refer to Sparse Recovery
section for the detailed discussion of xsparse and its usage.
Following is a short usage summary:
xsparse [OPTIONS] infile [outfile]
Available OPTIONS are:
| -h | Display a short help summary. |
| -n | Dry run: do nothing, only print what would have been done. This option
implies -v. |
| -v | Increase verbosity level. |
| -x FILE | Read extended header variables from FILE. |
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