# is-tar [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/kevva/is-tar.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/kevva/is-tar) > Check if a Buffer/Uint8Array is a TAR file ## Install ```sh $ npm install --save is-tar ``` ## Usage ```js var isTar = require('is-tar'); var read = require('fs').readFileSync; isTar(read('file.tar')); // => true ``` ## License MIT © [Kevin Mårtensson](https://github.com/kevva)