Lua API Archive

Lua API — Archive (beez.archive)

Create and read zip/tar archives (libarchive).

Formats

zip, tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar.xz (by extension or format option).

Functions

Function	Returns
compress(src, archive, [options])	{ path, bytes }
extract(archive, dest_dir)	{ entries, dest }
list(archive)	{ { path, size, is_dir }, ... }
extract_file(archive, entry, dest)	{ path, bytes }
read_text(archive, entry)	string (max 16 MiB)

beez.archive.compress("dist", "release.zip")
local version = beez.archive.read_text("release.zip", "VERSION")

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