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Description:
Standard tap archiver

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: System utilities

Tags: archiver backup tar schilytools cli

Install: brew install star

About:
Star is a high-performance archiver from the Schilytools suite, designed as an advanced alternative to tar. It efficiently handles various archive formats and offers features like incremental backups and sophisticated filtering. Its main value is providing robust, fast, and flexible data archiving capabilities for system administrators and developers.

Key Features:

Support for multiple archive formats including tar and cpio
Incremental backups and sophisticated file filtering
High performance and long-standing stability

Use Cases:

Creating and extracting complex archives
Performing incremental system backups
Migrating data between different UNIX-like systems

Alternatives:

GNU tar – Standard tool; Star offers more format support and advanced filtering options
7zip – Focuses on maximum compression; Star is optimized for POSIX systems and tape archiving

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 15, 2025 12:53pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	c52a5247
Sep 13, 2024 3:39am		0	VERSION_BUMP	83d4859f