Ghelani, Vidhi
2/17/2005 6:58:00 PM
Hi,
I could not find it . I got to the Ruwiki page and I am lost....can you
tell me where exactly it is?
Thanx,
Vidhi.
-----Original Message-----
From: Austin Ziegler [mailto:halostatue@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 10:18 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: question about tar in Ruby
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 02:44:33 +0900, Ghelani, Vidhi
<vidhi.ghelani@intel.com> wrote:
> I am trying to package a .tar.gz file using ruby. I have packaged a
> .tar file using the same ruby code and it works perfectly fine.
However,
> when I use the same code for a .tar.gz file, it give me an error while
> trying to open it . It says that this is not a tar file. I know I need
> to change something in my ruby code.
>
> There are a few things that I changed i.e. 1) the extension from .tar
to
> .tar.gz
>
> However there is a command at the end of the code which does
>
> Tar -cf #.tar.gz file # a folder which contains the
> install and license and everything to do with this file.
>
> Now I know that I need to change the above code, since this is not a
tar
> file. Does anyone know wot to do ??
Yes. Look at Archive::Tar::Minitar on RubyForge under the Ruwiki
project.
-austin
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