From: Dimitri Aivaliotis <aglarond@...>
Date: 2006-05-02T16:47:29+09:00
Subject: Re: "All-in-one" archives library?

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On 5/2/06, Victor Shepelev <vshepelev@imho.com.ua> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> I'd like to see some library which handles most popular archive types
> (zip,
> rar, tar, gz, bz2 ...) in uniform way, just like rubyzip[1] does:
>

At the moment, there's archive-tar-external, which basically wraps calls to
installed software with popen.  So, if you have all these tools installed
already, you can do something like:

      require 'archive/tar_external'

      t =3D Archive::Tar::External.new( name )
      t.compressed_archive_name =3D name
      if name =3D~ /\.bz2/
        t.uncompress( "bunzip2" )
      elsif name =3D~ /\.gz/
        t.uncompress( "gunzip" )
      elsif name =3D~ /\.zip/
        t.uncompress( "unzip" )
      end
      if name =3D~ /\.t(ar\.)?(gz)?/
        t.extract
      end

HTH,

- Dimitri

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