Untar a .tar Archive

Untar a .tar archive.

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require 'chilkat'

#  Important: It is helpful to send the contents of the
#  tar.LastErrorText property when requesting support.

#  Untar a .tar archive.
tar = Chilkat::CkTar.new()

#  Any string automatically begins the 30-day trial.
success = tar.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
if (success != true)
    print tar.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Untar into c:/temp/untarDir.  The directory tree(s) contained
#  within the TAR archive will be re-created rooted at this
#  directory.
tar.put_UntarFromDir("/Users/chilkat/temp/untarDir")

#  If any filepaths within the Tar archive are absolute,
#  automatically make them relative by removing the first
#  forward or backward slash.  This protects from untarring
#  files to unexpected locations.
tar.put_NoAbsolutePaths(true)

fileCount = tar.Untar("/Users/chilkat/testData/tar/abc123.tar")
if (fileCount < 0)
    print tar.lastErrorText() + "\n";
else
    print "Untarred " + fileCount.to_s() + " files and directories" + "\n";
end