zip a directory, unzip a zip file

[itsme213]

I have a directory that I want to compress/uncompress using any or zip,
gzip, bz2, etc. What is the easiest way to do this?

I've looked at zlib but could not find something simple and convenient.

Thanks

[Stefan Lang]

Look at archive-tar-minitar. It's available on RAA and as a RubyGem.

Stefan

[Thomas Sondergaard]

Or try my rubyzip (http://rubyzip.sourceforge.net). It's available as a
gem too:

gem install rubyzip

Cheers,

Thomas

[itsme213]

Does rubyzip directly support zipping up a directory into a file, and vice
versa?

Thanks.

"Thomas Sondergaard" <ts_n...@sondergaard.cc> wrote

[Austin Ziegler]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:49:47 +0900, itsme213 <itsm...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Does rubyzip directly support zipping up a directory into a file, and vice
> versa?
>
> Thanks.

It uses the .tar format, but Archive::Tar::Minitar does.

-austin
--
Austin Ziegler * halos...@gmail.com
* Alternate: aus...@halostatue.ca

[Thomas Sondergaard]

itsme213 wrote:
> Does rubyzip directly support zipping up a directory into a file, and vice
> versa?

Nope, but maybe I should add such methods :-)

Currently you'd do something like the following to zip everything in the
'test' and 'lib' dirs:

Zip::ZipFile::open("all.zip", true) {
|zf|

Dir['{test,lib}/**/*'].each { |f| zf.add(f, f) }

}

To unzip it to the file system again you'd do something like:

OUTDIR="out"

Zip::ZipFile::open("all.zip") {
|zf|

zf.each { |e|
fpath = File.join(OUTDIR, e.name)
FileUtils.mkdir_p(File.dirname(fpath))
zf.extract(e, fpath)
}
}

Cheers,

Thomas

[itsme213]

Perfect! Thanks, austin & thomas.

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