Assorted tar related things, including a fast tar-based copy.

Latest release 20240318: Initial PyPI release with nice traced_cpdir() function.

My most heavily used use for this is my cpdir script which does a high performance directory copy by piping 2 tars together. It runs this:

from cs.tarutils import traced_cpdir
sys.exit(traced_cpdir(*sys.argv[1:]))

Function tar(*srcpaths: List[str], chdirpath='.', output, tar_exe='tar', bcount=2048)

Tar up the contents of srcpaths to output. Return the Popen object for the tar command.

Parameters:

• srcpaths: source filesystem paths
• chdirpath: optional directory to which to chdir before accessing srcpaths
• tar_exe: optional tar executable, default from TAR_EXE: tar
• bcount: blocking factor in 512 byte unites, default from DEFAULT_BCOUNT: 2048

Function traced_cpdir(srcdirpath, dstdirpath, *, label=None, tar_exe='tar', bcount=2048, upd)

Copy a directory to a new place using piped tars with progress reporting. Return 0 if both tars succeed, nonzero otherwise.

Parameters:

• srcdirpath: the source directory filesystem path
• dstdirpath: the destination directory filesystem path, which must not already exist
• label: optional label for the progress bar
• tar_exe: optional tar executable, default from TAR_EXE: tar
• bcount: blocking factor in 512 byte unites, default from DEFAULT_BCOUNT: 2048

Function traced_untar(tarfd, *, chdirpath='.', label=None, tar_exe='tar', bcount=2048, total=None, _stat_fd=False, upd)

Read tar data from tarfd and extract. Return the tar exit code.

Parameters:

• tarfd: the source tar data, suitable for subprocess.Popen's stdin parameter
• chdirpath: optional directory to which to chdir before accessing srcpaths
• label: optional label for the progress bar
• tar_exe: optional tar executable, default from TAR_EXE: tar
• bcount: blocking factor in 512 byte unites, default from DEFAULT_BCOUNT: 2048

Release Log

Release 20240318: Initial PyPI release with nice traced_cpdir() function.