tar.gz

Pure gzip tarball tools and sugar for Node.js

API

• createReadStream reads a directory and returns a readable stream containing a gzipped tarball.

var fs = require('fs');
var targz = require('tar.gz');

// Create all streams that we need
var read = targz().createReadStream('/some/directory');
var write = fs.createWriteStream('compressed.tar.gz');

// Let the magic happen
read.pipe(write);

• createWriteStream writes the content from a tarball stream into some directory.

var request = require('request');
var targz = require('tar.gz');

// Streams
var read = request.get('https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.7/node-v0.12.7.tar.gz');
var write = targz().createWriteStream('/some/directory');

read.pipe(write);

• createParseStream reads a tarball stream and emits entry for every entry parsed .

var request = require('request');
var targz = require('tar.gz');

// Streams
var read = request.get('https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.7/node-v0.12.7.tar.gz');
var parse = targz().createParseStream();

parse.on('entry', function(entry){
  console.log(entry.path);
});

read.pipe(parse);

• compress compress one directory and saves the result to a tarball.

// Using callbacks
targz().compress('/home/myuser', '/bkp/backup.tar.gz', function(err){
  if(err)
    console.log('Something is wrong ', err.stack);

  console.log('Job done!');
});

// Using promises
targz().compress('/home/myuser', '/bkp/backup.tar.gz')
  .then(function(){
    console.log('Job done!');
  })
  .catch(function(err){
    console.log('Something is wrong ', err.stack);
  });

• extract extracts a tarball into a directory.

// Using callbacks
targz().extract('/bkp/backup.tar.gz', '/home/myuser', function(err){
  if(err)
    console.log('Something is wrong ', err.stack);

  console.log('Job done!');
});

// Using promises
targz().extract('/bkp/backup.tar.gz', '/home/myuser')
  .then(function(){
    console.log('Job done!');
  })
  .catch(function(err){
    console.log('Something is wrong ', err.stack);
  });

Gzip options

You can pass any zlib.createGzip options to tar.gz constructor, like so:

var tarball = new TarGz({
  level: 9, // Maximum compression
  memLevel: 9
});

Command line

It's also possible to use tar.gz as a command line utility, you just need to install it globally with npm install -g tar.gz. Here is the help command output.

Usage: targz [options] [command]

Commands:

  extract|e <source> <target>             Extracts the source tarball into the target directory
  compress|c [options] <source> <target>  Compress the source directory into the target tarball
  list|l <source>                         List all paths inside the source tarball

Options:

  -h, --help     output usage information
  -V, --version  output the version number

Testing

git clone git@github.com:alanhoff/node-tar.gz.git
cd node-tar.gz
npm install && npm test

License (ISC)

Copyright (c) 2015, Alan Hoffmeister <alanhoffmeister@gmail.com>

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

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