tar

Package tar implements access to tar archives.

Feature

• Tar
• Gzip
• Tar files or dirs

Get started

Install

go get github.com/hslam/tar

Import

import "github.com/hslam/tar"

Usage

Example

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/hslam/tar"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	name := "file"
	targz := "file.tar.gz"
	defer os.Remove(name)
	defer os.Remove(targz)
	file, err := os.Create(name)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	contents := "Hello World"
	file.Write([]byte(contents))
	file.Close()
	tar.Targz(targz, name)
	os.Remove(name)
	tar.Untargz(targz)
	f, err := os.Open(name)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer f.Close()
	buf := make([]byte, len(contents))
	f.Read(buf)
	fmt.Println(string(buf))
}

Tar bytes example

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/hslam/tar"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	targz := "file.tar.gz"
	defer os.Remove(targz)
	tw, err := tar.NewGzipFileWriter(targz)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	tw.TarBytes("file", []byte("Hello World"))
	tw.Flush()
	tw.Close()
	tr, err := tar.NewGzipFileReader(targz)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	_, _, data, err := tr.NextBytes()
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(string(data))
}

Output

Hello World

License

This package is licensed under a MIT license (Copyright (c) 2020 Meng Huang)

Author

tar was written by Meng Huang.