Thanks to maintainers working on projects like tar-stream, you can use Tidelift to give your teams access to a continuously curated stream of validated data about vetted components they need to make intelligent decisions, faster.
You can feel confident bringing tar-stream into your application’s dependency tree because the maintainers of tar-stream are paid by Tidelift to ensure their open source projects follow standardized secure software development practices.
tar-stream is a streaming tar parser and generator and nothing else. It is streams2 and operates purely using streams which means you can easily extract/parse tarballs without ever hitting the file system. tar-stream exposes two streams, pack which creates tarballs and extract which extracts tarballs. To modify an existing tarball use both.It implementes USTAR with additional support for pax extended headers. It should be compatible with all popular tar distributions out there (gnutar, bsdtar etc).
tar-stream is available via the npm package manager.
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