[Tips] How to extract TGZ, TAR.GZ by SharpCompress C#

What different between TGZ format and TAR.GZ format?

TGZ with TAR.GZ is same

What is SharpCompress?

SharpCompress is a compression library for .NET/Mono/Silverlight/WP7, WP8, WP8.1/WindowsStore that can unrar decompress RAR, 7zip, zip/unzip, tar/untar bzip2/unbzip2 and gzip with forward-only reading and file random access APIs.

Write support for zip/tar/bzip2/gzip is implemented.

The following are not yet supported,
– RAR 5
– Write 7Zip
– Zip64
– Multi-volume Zip

How to work?

Install SharpCompress

To install SharpCompress, you can manually fork the repository from Github. Or you can use NuGet

Include Library

Source Code:

using SharpCompress.Reader;
using SharpCompress.Common;

You can download full source code from here

How to decompress tgz, tar.gz by using SharpCompress library

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    unTAR(@"E:testserver.tgz");
    Console.WriteLine("Decompress Succeed!");
    Console.ReadLine();
}

private static string directoryPath = @"E:testextract";

static void unTAR(string tarFilePath)
{            
    // UTF7: support chinese font -> UTF.7
    SharpCompress.Common.ArchiveEncoding.Default = Encoding.UTF7;

    using (Stream stream = File.OpenRead(tarFilePath))
    {            
        var reader = ReaderFactory.Open(stream);
                
        while (reader.MoveToNextEntry())
        {
            if (!reader.Entry.IsDirectory)
                reader.WriteEntryToDirectory(directoryPath, 
                   ExtractOptions.ExtractFullPath | ExtractOptions.Overwrite);

        }
     }
}

Before and after decompress from server.tgz file

E:testserver.tgz

You can download full source code from here

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