tarstats – Generate some statistics about a tarfile.
A simple Python commandline application that collects statistics about tarfiles.
Installation
$ pip3 install .
The dot after install is important.
Usage
Get help:
$ tarstats -h
usage: tarstats [-h] [-j] [-t] tarfile [tarfile ...]
Print some stats about tarfiles.
positional arguments:
tarfile A tarfile to print stats on.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-j, --json Print the stats as json.
-t, --totals Also print a total over all tarfiles.
Get stats:
$ tarstats testtar.tgz
type: archive
name: testtar.tgz
size: 112640
filesize: 547
files: 2
dirs: 1
symlinks: 1
hardlinks: 0
devices: 0
Get stats in json:
$ tarstats -j testtar.tgz
{"type": "archive", "name": "testtar.tgz", "size": 112640, "filesize": 547, "files": 2, "dirs": 1, "symlinks": 1, "hardlinks": 0, "dev": 0}
Get stats (in json) for more than one file + totals:
$ tarstats -tj testtar.tgz testtar.tgz
{"type": "archive", "name": "testtar.tgz", "size": 112640, "filesize": 547, "files": 2, "dirs": 1, "symlinks": 1, "hardlinks": 0, "dev": 0}
{"type": "archive", "name": "testtar.tgz", "size": 112640, "filesize": 547, "files": 2, "dirs": 1, "symlinks": 1, "hardlinks": 0, "dev": 0}
{"type": "total", "name": "total", "size": 225280, "filesize": 1094, "files": 4, "dirs": 2, "symlinks": 2, "hardlinks": 0, "dev": 0}
