How to Untar / Extract a TAR file using Java

Hi,

we will explain how to extract the contents of a TAR file through a Java . In order to decompress TAR file, we will be using Apache Commons Compress library, so make sure you have a copy of this library commons-compress-1.4.1.jar loaded into your classpath. You will also require Apache Commons IO library commons-io-2.4.jar in your classpath as we will use this to write every single extracted file from the TAR archive to disk.

1)You use TarArchiveInputStream to read a TAR file as an InputStream. Once you get a TAR file as an object of this type, you can easily start processing on the file.

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import java.io.*;
import org.apache.commons.compress.utils.*;
import java.util.zip.*;
import org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.*;
import org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.*;
import org.apache.commons.compress.compressors.gzip.*;
import java.util.*;

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File tarFile = new File(c:/test.tar);
File dest = new File(c:/temp/);

TarArchiveInputStream tarIn = new TarArchiveInputStream(
new GzipCompressorInputStream(
new BufferedInputStream(
new FileInputStream(
tarFile
)
)
)
);

TarArchiveEntry tarEntry = tarIn.getNextTarEntry();
// tarIn is a TarArchiveInputStream
while (tarEntry != null) {
// create a file with the same name as the tarEntry
File destPath = new File(dest, tarEntry.getName());
System.out.println(“working: ” + destPath.getCanonicalPath());
if (tarEntry.isDirectory()) {
destPath.mkdirs();
} else {
destPath.createNewFile();
byte [] btoRead = new byte[2048];
BufferedOutputStream bout =
new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(destPath));
int len;
while((len = tarIn.read(btoRead)) != -1)
{
bout.write(btoRead,0,len);
}

bout.close();
btoRead = null;

}
tarEntry = tarIn.getNextTarEntry();
}
tarIn.close();

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Finally , you close all output streams / files opened and that completes the program.

Thanks & Regards,

Vishwanth S

Senior ETL Developer.

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