Lua

GZip Tar Extract (.tgz or .tar.gz)

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Demonstrates how to extract the contents of a GZip compressed Tar archive (.tgz or .tar.gz). Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
-- See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

local gzip = chilkat.Gzip.new()

-- Ungzip and untar.
local bNoAbsolute = true
local untarToDirectory = "/temp/test"
-- bNoAbsolute tells the component to convert all absolute paths
-- found in the .tar to relative paths.   For example, if the .tar
-- contains a file with an absolute path such as
-- "/usr/bin/something.exe" it will
-- be extracted to "/temp/test/usr/bin/something.exe";
local success = gzip:un_tar_gz("test.tar.gz", untarToDirectory, bNoAbsolute)
if not success then
    print(gzip.last_error_text)
    return
end