TAR Archiving

Tar purpose

A Tar archive ets you combine multiple files into a single archive. You can also compress the resulting archive for efficient storage or transfer.

Collecting without compression

The following example demonstrates how to gather two files into a TAR archive:

 1    using (FileStream tarFile = File.Open("joint.tar", FileMode.Create))
 2    {
 3        FileInfo fi1 = new FileInfo("text.txt");
 4        FileInfo fi2 = new FileInfo("picture.png");
 5
 6        using (var archive = new TarArchive())
 7        {
 8            archive.CreateEntry("text.txt", fi1);
 9            archive.CreateEntry("picture.png", fi2);
10            archive.Save(tarFile);
11        }
12    }

Compressing tar archive

On Unix-like operating systems, the tar utility can automatically compress a tar archive with gzip during creation. Aspose.Zip provides similar functionality using the SaveGzipped method.

1    using (var archive = new TarArchive())
2    {
3        archive.CreateEntry("text.txt", @"D:\texts\article.txt");
4        archive.CreateEntry("picture.png", @"D:\Picture\photo.png");
5        archive.SaveGzipped("result.tar.gz");
6    }

The xz utility is increasingly popular on Linux and Unix systems. Its TAR compression can be easily performed using the SaveXzCompressed method of a tar archive.

1    using (FileStream xzFile = File.Open("archive.tar.xz", FileMode.Create))
2    {
3        using (var archive = new TarArchive())
4        {
5            archive.CreateEntry("text.txt", @"D:\texts\article.txt");
6            archive.CreateEntry("picture.png", @"D:\Picture\photo.png");
7            archive.SaveXzCompressed(xzFile);
8        }
9    }

Just like gzip and xz compression, Aspose.Zip lets you easily combine TAR archiving with Lzip, Zstandard, LZ4, or LZMA compression.

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