tar-rs

Documentation

A tar archive reading/writing library for Rust.

# Cargo.toml
[dependencies]
tar = "0.4"

Reading an archive

```rust,no_run extern crate tar;

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

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

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

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

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

}

## Writing an archive

```rust,no_run
extern crate tar;

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

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

    a.append_path("file1.txt").unwrap();
    a.append_file("file2.txt", &mut File::open("file3.txt").unwrap()).unwrap();
}

License

This project is licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/license/mit)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this project by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.