tar-rs

Documentation

A tar archive reading/writing library for Rust.

```toml

Cargo.toml

[dependencies.tar] git = "https://github.com/alexcrichton/tar-rs" ```

Reading an archive

```rust,no_run

#![allow(unusedmustuse, unstable)]

extern crate tar;

use std::io::prelude::*; use std::io::SeekFrom; use std::fs::File; use tar::Archive;

fn main() { let file = File::open("foo.tar").unwrap(); let a = Archive::new(file);

for file in a.files().unwrap() {
    // Make sure there wasn't an I/O error
    let mut file = file.unwrap();

    // Inspect metadata about the file
    println!("{:?}", file.filename());
    println!("{}", file.size());

    // files implement the Read trait
    let mut s = String::new();
    file.read_to_string(&mut s).unwrap();
    println!("{}", s);

    // files also implement the Seek trait
    file.seek(SeekFrom::Current(0)).unwrap();
}

}

```

Writing an archive

```rust,no_run

#![allow(unusedmustuse, unstable)]

extern crate tar;

use std::io::prelude::*; use std::fs::File; use tar::Archive;

fn main() { let file = File::create("foo.tar").unwrap(); let a = Archive::new(file);

a.append("file1.txt", &mut File::open("file1.txt").unwrap());
a.append("file2.txt", &mut File::open("file2.txt").unwrap());
a.finish();

} ```

License

tar-rs is primarily distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0), with portions covered by various BSD-like licenses.

See LICENSE-APACHE, and LICENSE-MIT for details.