Perl

UnGzip .tgz to get a .tar

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A .tgz is simply a TAR archive compressed using GZip. It is also commonly referred to as a .tar.gz. Chilkat GZip can be used to ungzip to get an uncompressed .tar. Perl

use chilkat();

$success = 0;

$gzip = chilkat::CkGzip->new();

$success = $gzip->UncompressFile("qa_data/tar/test.tgz","qa_output/test.tar");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $gzip->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
}
else {
    print "success." . "\r\n";
}