Mixlib::Archive

A very simple gem to extract archives.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'mixlib-archive'

Note: If ffi-libarchive is installed this gem will use libarchive. Otherwise it will fall back to tar. Make sure to install ffi-libarchive for the best experience.

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install mixlib-archive

Usage

To extract an archive

require "mixlib/archive"
tar = Mixlib::Archive.new("/path/to/tar")
tar.extract("/destination/directory")

To create an archive

require "mixlib/archive"
tar = Mixlib::Archive.new("/path/to/foo.tar.gz")
tar.create(%w{ file.rb file2.rb }, gzip: true)

Development

After checking out the repo, run bundle to install dependencies. Then, run bundle exec rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bundle console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

Documentation

All documentation is written using YARD. You can generate a by running:

rake docs

Contributing

For information on contributing to this project please see our Contributing Documentation

License & Copyright

• Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2017-2021 Chef Software, Inc.
• License:: Apache License, Version 2.0

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