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@types/tar provides TypeScript type definitions for the 'tar' npm package, which is used for creating and extracting tar archives.
Creating a tar archive
This feature allows you to create a tar archive from a list of files and directories. The example code creates a gzip-compressed tar archive named 'archive.tar.gz' containing 'file1', 'file2', and 'directory'.
const tar = require('tar');
tar.c({
gzip: true,
file: 'archive.tar.gz'
}, ['file1', 'file2', 'directory']).then(() => {
console.log('Archive created successfully');
});
Extracting a tar archive
This feature allows you to extract a tar archive to a specified directory. The example code extracts 'archive.tar.gz' into the 'output_directory'.
const tar = require('tar');
tar.x({
file: 'archive.tar.gz',
C: 'output_directory'
}).then(() => {
console.log('Archive extracted successfully');
});
Listing files in a tar archive
This feature allows you to list the files contained in a tar archive. The example code lists the files in 'archive.tar.gz'.
const tar = require('tar');
tar.t({
file: 'archive.tar.gz'
}).then((list) => {
console.log('Files in archive:', list);
});
node-tar is the core package for handling tar archives in Node.js. It provides functionalities for creating, extracting, and listing tar archives. @types/tar provides TypeScript definitions for this package.
tar-stream is a lower-level package for creating and extracting tar streams. It provides more granular control over the tar archive creation and extraction process compared to node-tar.
yauzl is a package for handling zip archives, which is a different format from tar. It provides functionalities for reading and extracting zip files, similar to what node-tar does for tar files.
npm install --save @types/tar
This package contains type definitions for tar (https://github.com/npm/node-tar).
Files were exported from https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/types/tar.
These definitions were written by Maxime LUCE, and Connor Peet.
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TypeScript definitions for tar
The npm package @types/tar receives a total of 431,598 weekly downloads. As such, @types/tar popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @types/tar demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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