VeriTAR [Veri(fy)TAR] is a command-line utility that verifies
the MD5 sums of files within a tar archive. Due to
the limitations of the tar ("ustar") format, the
MD5 sums are retrieved from a separate file and
are checked against the MD5 sums of the files
within the tar archive. The process takes place
without actually exctracting the files. It works
even with corrupted tar archives. The program
carries on to the next file within the archive,
skipping the damaged parts. At the moment, this
relies on internal functions of Python's tarfile
module.
