Crate compress_tools

The compress-tools crate aims to provide a convenient and easy to use set of methods which builds on top of libarchive exposing a small set of it’s functionalities.

Platform	Build Status
Linux
macOS
Windows

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Dependencies

You must have libarchive properly installed on your system in order to use this. If building on *nix systems, pkg-config is used to locate the libarchive; on Windows vcpkg will be used to locating the libarchive.

The minimum supported Rust version is 1.38.

Features

This crate is capable of extracting:

• compressed files
• archive files
• single file from an archive

For example, to extract an archive file it is as simple as:

use compress_tools::*;
use std::fs::File;
use std::path::Path;

let mut source = File::open("tree.tar.gz")?;
let dest = Path::new("/tmp/dest");

uncompress_archive(&mut source, &dest, Ownership::Preserve)?;

Enums

Error
Ownership	Determine the ownership behavior when unpacking the archive.

Functions

uncompress_archive	Uncompress an archive using source as a reader and dest as the destination directory.
uncompress_archive_file	Uncompress a specific file from an archive. The source is used as a reader, the target as a writer and the path is the relative path for the file to be extracted from the archive.
uncompress_data	Uncompress a file using the source need as reader and the target as a writer.

Type Definitions

Result