Class TarFile

Provides static methods for extracting tar files and tarballs.

Inheritance
System.Object
TarFile
Namespace: GDX.IO.Compression
Syntax
public static class TarFile

Methods

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ExtractStream(Stream, String)

Extract a tar formatted System.IO.Stream to the destinationDirectoryName.

Declaration
public static void ExtractStream(Stream sourceStream, string destinationDirectoryName)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.IO.Stream sourceStream

The System.IO.Stream which to extract from.
System.String destinationDirectoryName

Output directory to write the files.
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ExtractToDirectory(String, String, Boolean)

Extracts all the files in the specified tar/tarball to a directory on the file system.

Declaration
public static void ExtractToDirectory(string sourceArchiveFileName, string destinationDirectoryName, bool forceGZipDataFormat = false)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.String sourceArchiveFileName

The path to the archive that is to be extracted.
System.String destinationDirectoryName

The path to the directory in which to place the extracted files, specified as a relative or absolute path. A relative path is interpreted as relative to the current working directory.
System.Boolean forceGZipDataFormat

Enforce inflating the file via a System.IO.Compression.GZipStream.
Examples

A synchronous approach to extracting the contents of a file, to a folder:

TarFile.ExtractToDirectory("C:\Temp\DownloadCache.tar.gz", "C:\Saved");