Uncompress tar.gz

Ruby
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Which is the best way to uncompress a ‘tar.gz’ file since Ruby?

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Kless wrote:

Which is the best way to uncompress a ‘tar.gz’ file since Ruby?

I’m not sure if I’m misunderstanding you, but wouldn’t that be

tar xvzf [filename]?

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On 18 oct, 19:13, Adam P. [email protected] wrote:

Kless wrote:

Which is the best way to uncompress a ‘tar.gz’ file since Ruby?

I’m not sure if I’m misunderstanding you, but wouldn’t that be

tar xvzf [filename]?

Better using Ruby:

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Kless wrote:

Which is the best way to uncompress a ‘tar.gz’ file since Ruby?

The more I look at your message the more I suspect that you meant using
Ruby.

Check out this recipe at
http://my.safaribooksonline.com/0596523696/rubyckbk-CHP-12-SECT-10 and
see if that helps.

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There is a great library, Facets [1], with many usefull methods and
that lets too compress/uncompress easily [2].

[1] http://facets.rubyforge.org/
[2] http://facets.rubyforge.org/quick/rdoc/more/classes/ZipUtils.html