Collect files to tar and compress

Tar purpose

Tar archive allows you to combine several files into a single file. You may compress the joint file, too.

Collecting without compression

There is a sample of collecting two files into a tar archive.

using (FileStream tarFile = File.Open("joint.tar", FileMode.Create))
{
    FileInfo fi1 = new FileInfo("text.txt");
    FileInfo fi2 = new FileInfo("picture.png"));

    using (var archive = new TarArchive())
    {
        archive.CreateEntry("text.txt", fi1);
        archive.CreateEntry("picture.png", fi2);
        archive.Save(tarFile);
    }
}

Compressing tar archive

In Unix-like operating systems tar utility allows compressing tar archive to gzip on creation. Aspose.Zip provides similar functionality with the SaveGzipped method.

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

Nowadays xz utility has become popular in Linux and Unix. Its compression of tar is seamlessly integrated into Aspose.Zip. Use the SaveXzCompressed method of a tar archive.

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