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Background
I have a release file inside a tarball. However I want the final release to have some additional files and to move things around, for the convenience of the user.
This means I need to do 3 things:
- Extract the contents of the tarball into a folder
- Add the extra files to said folder and move some items around
- compress everything again and call it a day
Problem
While I have it clear on how to execute step 2, using File and friends, I have tried several ways to do steps 1 and 3 and I failed.
I have tried using :zip, but it returns a bad encoding error, probably because the file is not a zip but tar instead.
I am also aware of File.open("path", :read, :compressed), but I don’t want to read anything, I want to extract it into a new folder.
I also checked Unzip but it does not fit my use case.
Question
How can I extract a tar file into a folder and compress a folder into a tar file?
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LostKobrakai
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Do we have an elixir module/equivalent ?
Using that I have the following error:
So I am guessing I am not passing the correct options, since Windows can extract the file perfectly.
dimitarvp
I’m guessing it has to be decompressed first.
akash-akya
Since are trying to extract gziped tar file
.tar.gz, you have to decompress as well.Fl4m3Ph03n1x
I was able to extract the file using:
This will extract the tar file into the
tmpfolder. Once there I can do the rest !