VBScript

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. VBScript

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

set gzip = CreateObject("Chilkat.Gzip")

success = gzip.UncompressFile("qa_data/tar/test.tgz","qa_output/test.tar")
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(gzip.LastErrorText)
Else
    outFile.WriteLine("success.")
End If


outFile.Close