http://Check-these.info/MiniTar.html

MiniTar is a mini web utility for extracting/compressing files.

It's a small (nearly pure) shellscript offering both Web interface and command line capability.

So, you can use it in crontab or in other scripts, and also extract/compress via browser.

It can handle zip, tar, tgz (tar.gz), tbz2 (tar.bz2) format.

Installation:

• For using it on PowWeb servers:

If you have or install extratools automatic installer, just click on Install/Update minitar.cgi.

(This is the recommended method for novice users.)

• To install manually;

No editing is required (unless you want to use default parameter feature).

Just upload/copy the file to a well protected directory as minitar.cgi and set permission to 700 (using WebFTP/site tool/FTP/File manager...), and it's ready to go.

Download link:

http://check-these.info/tools/minitar_cgi.txt

Limitation:

You cannot use special characters in parameters with Web interface.

Allowed chars: 0-9 a-z A-Z - _ . * /

With command line interface, there is no limitation imposed by this script.

It's under testing. Some commandline options are not implemented.

Although I checked, it may still have serious bug.

Future plan:

• Directory browsing feature to allow selecting items
• Better error handling
• Polish up code arround 'for' loop and 'while' loop
• Encode and escape html special chars in the output

But if you really want more features, you should use OcamlEditor.

This script is created out of MiniSqlDump.

Basically, it's a file compression/extraction part of MiniSqlDump,

modified somewhat to offer convenience.

This page is http://Check-these.info/MiniTar.html

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