go-tarfs

Read a tar file contents using go1.16 io/fs abstraction

Usage

⚠️ go-tarfs needs go>=1.16

Install:

go get github.com/nlepage/go-tarfs

Use:

package main

import (
    "os"

    tarfs "github.com/nlepage/go-tarfs"
)

func main() {
    tf, err := os.Open("path/to/archive.tar")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    defer tf.Close()

    tfs, err := tarfs.New(tf)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    f, err := tfs.Open("path/to/some/file")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    // defer f.Close() isn't necessary, it is a noop
    
    // use f...
}

More information at pkg.go.dev/github.com/nlepage/go-tarfs

Caveats

For now, no effort is done to support symbolic links.

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Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Nicolas Lepage 💻 ⚠️ 💡 🚧 👀

Jonas Plum ⚠️ 💻

MengYX 🐛 💻

Andrey Dyatlov 🐛 💻 ⚠️

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

📝 License

This project is unlicensed, it is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.