From: Eko Budi Setiyo <contact_us@...>
Date: 2005-02-18T10:22:57+09:00
Subject: Re: question about tar in Ruby

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Austin Ziegler wrote:

>On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 03:58:23 +0900, Ghelani, Vidhi
><vidhi.ghelani@intel.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>I could not find it . I got to the Ruwiki page and I am lost....can you
>>tell me where exactly it is?
>>    
>>
>
>http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=84&release_id=895
>
>-austin
>  
>
May be this one will help (part of rubytoday project)

######################################################
# file name tar.rb
#ussage tar.rb abc
#result abc.tar
#

require 'zlib'
require 'archive/tar/minitar'

include Archive::Tar

file = ARGV[0].to_s

if ARGV[1] != nil
  tar = File.open(ARGV[1].to_s,'wb') 
  Minitar.pack(file,tar)
else
  tar = File.open(file+'.tar', 'wb') 
  Minitar.pack(file,tar)
end

######################################################
#file name zip.tar
#usage zip.rb abc.tar
#result abc.tar.gz
#

require 'zlib'

file = ARGV[0].to_s

local = File.new(file,'rb')

if ARGV[1] == nil
  fileTo = file+'.gz'
else
  fileTo = ARGV[1].to_s
end

Zlib::GzipWriter.open(fileTo) {|gz|
  gz.write(local.read)
  gz.close
}

local.close
###############################################
All the code is part of  ruby today project (tested with unit test)
If you want more (untar.rb unzip.rb) you can download from  
http://www.rubytoday.com/download/rubytoday.zip
All the unit test is included in the rubytoday.zip if you want to play 
arrount with it



regards
Eko
http://www.rubytoday.com


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