Compress directory to tar.gz with Commons Compress

Question

I\'m running into a problem using the commons compress library to create a tar.gz of a directory. I have a directory structure that is as follows.

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Answer 1

I followed this solution and it worked until I was processing a larger set of files and it randomly crashes after processing 15000 - 16000 files. the following line is leaking file handlers:

IOUtils.copy(new FileInputStream(f), tOut);

and the code crashed with a "Too many open files" error at the OS level The following minor change fix the problem:

FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(f);
IOUtils.copy(in, tOut);
in.close();