c4milo/unpackit

Go package to natively decompress and unarchive tar.gz, tar.bzip2, tar.xz, zip and tar files.

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UnpackIt

This Go library allows you to easily unpack the following files using magic numbers:

tar.gz
tar.bzip2
tar.xz
zip
tar

Usage

Unpack a file:

    file, _ := os.Open(test.filepath)
    err := unpackit.Unpack(file, tempDir)

Unpack a stream (such as a http.Response):

    res, err := http.Get(url)
    err := unpackit.Unpack(res.Body, tempDir)

bzip2

decompression-library

golang

gzip

tar

unpack

zip

Project health

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2.0/10

Maintained

0/10

Code review

1/10

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Go module

github.com/c4milo/unpackit

Latest release

v1.0.0 · Oct 4, 2022

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