NAME

       mmtarfilter - filter a tarball like dpkg does

DESCRIPTION

       usage: mmtarfilter [-h] [--path-exclude pattern] [--path-include pattern]

              [--pax-exclude pattern] [--pax-include pattern] [--strip-components number]

       Filters  a  tarball  on  standard  input  by  the same rules as the dpkg --pathexclude and --path-include
       options and writes resulting tarball to standard output. See dpkg(1) for information  on  how  these  two
       options  work  in detail.  Since this is meant for filtering tarballs storing a rootfs, notice that paths
       must be given as /path and not as ./path even though they  might  be  stored  as  such  in  the  tarball.
       Similarly,  filter  out  unwanted pax extended headers. This is useful in cases where a tool only accepts
       certain xattr prefixes. For example tar2sqfs only  supports  SCHILY.xattr.user.*,  SCHILY.xattr.trusted.*
       and  SCHILY.xattr.security.*  but  not SCHILY.xattr.system.posix_acl_default.*. Both types of options use
       Unix shell-style wildcards: * matches everything ?   matches  any  single  character  [seq]  matches  any
       character  in seq [!seq] matches any character not in seq Thirdly, strip leading directory components off
       of tar members. Just as with GNU tar --strip-components, tar members that have less or  equal  components
       in their path are not passed through.

   options:
       -h, --help
              show this help message and exit

       --path-exclude pattern
              Exclude path matching the given shell pattern.

       --path-include pattern
              Re-include a pattern after a previous exclusion.

       --pax-exclude pattern
              Exclude pax header matching the given globbing pattern.

       --pax-include pattern
              Re-include a pax header after a previous exclusion.

       --strip-components number
              Strip NUMBER leading components from file names

mmtarfilter 0.8.4                                September 2022                                   MMTARFILTER(1)