Perl

Untar a .tar.gz (.tgz) Compressed Archive

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Untar a .tar.gz (.tgz) GZIP compressed archive. Perl

use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

# Untar a .tar archive.
$tar = chilkat::CkTar->new();

# 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(1);

$success = $tar->UntarGz("/Users/chilkat/testData/tar/abc123.tar.gz");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $tar->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
}
else {
    print "Success" . "\r\n";
}