Tar

Operations and tasks for working with tar archives.

Nested types and modules

Module	Description
BZip2	Operations and tasks for working with tar archives compressed with BZip2.
GZip	Operations and tasks for working with tar archives compressed with GZip.

Functions and values

Function or value	Description
`addEntry outStream` Signature: outStream:TarOutputStream -> ArchiveFileSpec -> unit	Adds a file, specified by an `ArchiveFileSpec`, to a `TarOutputStream`.
`CompressDir flatten baseDir archiveFile` Signature: flatten:bool -> baseDir:DirectoryInfo -> archiveFile:FileInfo -> unit	Creates a tar archive containing all the files in a directory. Parameters `flatten` - If set to true then all subfolders are merged into the root folder of the archive. `baseDir` - The base directory to be archived. This directory will be the root of the resulting archive. `archiveFile` - The output archive file. If existing, will be overwritten.
`CompressDirWithDefaults (...)` Signature: baseDir:DirectoryInfo -> archiveFile:FileInfo -> unit	Creates a tar.gz archive containing all the files in a directory. Parameters `baseDir` - The base directory to be archived. This directory will be the root of the resulting archive. `archiveFile` - The output archive file. If existing, will be overwritten.
`createFile file` Signature: file:FileInfo -> TarOutputStream	Creates a `TarOutputStream` wrapping a file using the given parameters. Parameters `file` - The `FileInfo` describing the location to which the archive should be written. Will be overwritten if it exists.
`Extract extractDir archiveFile` Signature: extractDir:DirectoryInfo -> archiveFile:FileInfo -> unit	Extracts a tar archive to a given directory. Parameters `targetDir` - The directory into which the archived files will be extracted. `archiveFile` - The archive to be extracted.
`extractStream inner` Signature: inner:Stream -> TarInputStream	Wraps an input stream with a tar container extractor.
`store file items` Signature: file:FileInfo -> items:seq<ArchiveFileSpec> -> unit	Constructs a function that will create a tar archive from a set of files.
`Store flatten baseDir archiveFile files` Signature: flatten:bool -> baseDir:DirectoryInfo -> archiveFile:FileInfo -> files:seq<FileInfo> -> unit	Creates a tar archive with the given files. Parameters `flatten` - If set to true then all subfolders are merged into the root folder of the archive. `baseDir` - The relative directory of the files to be archived. Use this parameter to influence directory structure within the archive. `archiveFile` - The output archive file. If existing, will be overwritten. `files` - A sequence of files to store.
`StoreSpecs archiveFile fileSpecs` Signature: archiveFile:FileInfo -> fileSpecs:seq<ArchiveFileSpec> -> unit	Creates a tar archive with the given archive file specifications. Parameters `archiveFile` - The output archive file. If existing, will be overwritten. `fileSpecs` - A sequence of archive file specifications.
`storeStream inner` Signature: inner:Stream -> TarOutputStream	Wraps an output stream with a tar container store.
`StoreWithDefaults (...)` Signature: baseDir:DirectoryInfo -> archiveFile:FileInfo -> files:seq<FileInfo> -> unit	Creates a tar archive with the given files with default parameters. Parameters `baseDir` - The relative directory of the files to be archived. Use this parameter to influence directory structure within the archive. `archiveFile` - The output archive file. If existing, will be overwritten. `files` - A sequence of files to store.

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