NAME

       mmtarfilter - filter a tarball like dpkg does

DESCRIPTION

       usage: mmtarfilter [-h] [--path-exclude pattern] [--path-include pattern]

              [--pax-exclude pattern] [--pax-include pattern] [--strip-components number]

       Filters  a  tarball  on  standard  input  by  the same rules as the dpkg --pathexclude and
       --path-include options and writes resulting tarball to standard output.  See  dpkg(1)  for
       information  on  how  these two options work in detail.  Since this is meant for filtering
       tarballs storing a rootfs, notice that paths must be given as /path and not as ./path even
       though  they  might  be  stored as such in the tarball. Similarly, filter out unwanted pax
       extended headers. This is useful  in  cases  where  a  tool  only  accepts  certain  xattr
       prefixes.  For  example tar2sqfs only supports SCHILY.xattr.user.*, SCHILY.xattr.trusted.*
       and SCHILY.xattr.security.* but not SCHILY.xattr.system.posix_acl_default.*. Both types of
       options  use  Unix  shell-style  wildcards:  *  matches  everything  ?  matches any single
       character [seq] matches any character in seq [!seq]  matches  any  character  not  in  seq
       Thirdly,  strip  leading  directory  components  off  of tar members. Just as with GNU tar
       --strip-components, tar members that have less or equal components in their path  are  not
       passed through.

   options:
       -h, --help
              show this help message and exit

       --path-exclude pattern
              Exclude path matching the given shell pattern.

       --path-include pattern
              Re-include a pattern after a previous exclusion.

       --pax-exclude pattern
              Exclude pax header matching the given globbing pattern.

       --pax-include pattern
              Re-include a pax header after a previous exclusion.

       --strip-components number
              Strip NUMBER leading components from file names