Ruby

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. Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

gzip = Chilkat::CkGzip.new()

success = gzip.UncompressFile("qa_data/tar/test.tgz","qa_output/test.tar")
if (success != true)
    print gzip.lastErrorText() + "\n";
else
    print "success." + "\n";
end