targz

Documentation

Overview

Package targz contains methods to create and extract tar gz archives.

Usage (discarding potential errors):

targz.Compress("path/to/the/directory/to/compress", "my_archive.tar.gz")
targz.Extract("my_archive.tar.gz", "directory/to/extract/to")

This creates an archive in ./my_archive.tar.gz with the folder "compress" (last in the path). And extracts the folder "compress" to "directory/to/extract/to/". The folder structure is created if it doesn't exist.

Index

• func Compress(inputFilePath, outputFilePath string) (err error)
• func Extract(inputFilePath, outputFilePath string) (err error)

Functions

func Compress

func Compress(inputFilePath, outputFilePath string) (err error)

Compress creates a archive from the folder inputFilePath points to in the file outputFilePath points to. Only adds the last directory in inputFilePath to the archive, not the whole path. It tries to create the directory structure outputFilePath contains if it doesn't exist. It returns potential errors to be checked or nil if everything works.

func Extract

func Extract(inputFilePath, outputFilePath string) (err error)

Extract extracts a archive from the file inputFilePath points to in the directory outputFilePath points to. It tries to create the directory structure outputFilePath contains if it doesn't exist. It returns potential errors to be checked or nil if everything works.