[OmniOS-discuss] tar version of OmniOSCE

[Eric Sproul]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Dirk Willems <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
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