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.

parent/
          


        

Answer 1

I haven't figured out what exactly was going wrong but a scouring of google caches I found a working example. Sorry for the tumbleweed!

public void CreateTarGZ()
    throws FileNotFoundException, IOException
{
    try {
        System.out.println(new File(".").getAbsolutePath());
        dirPath = "parent/childDirToCompress/";
        tarGzPath = "archive.tar.gz";
        fOut = new FileOutputStream(new File(tarGzPath));
        bOut = new BufferedOutputStream(fOut);
        gzOut = new GzipCompressorOutputStream(bOut);
        tOut = new TarArchiveOutputStream(gzOut);
        addFileToTarGz(tOut, dirPath, "");
    } finally {
        tOut.finish();
        tOut.close();
        gzOut.close();
        bOut.close();
        fOut.close();
    }
}

private void addFileToTarGz(TarArchiveOutputStream tOut, String path, String base)
    throws IOException
{
    File f = new File(path);
    System.out.println(f.exists());
    String entryName = base + f.getName();
    TarArchiveEntry tarEntry = new TarArchiveEntry(f, entryName);
    tOut.putArchiveEntry(tarEntry);

    if (f.isFile()) {
        IOUtils.copy(new FileInputStream(f), tOut);
        tOut.closeArchiveEntry();
    } else {
        tOut.closeArchiveEntry();
        File[] children = f.listFiles();
        if (children != null) {
            for (File child : children) {
                System.out.println(child.getName());
                addFileToTarGz(tOut, child.getAbsolutePath(), entryName + "/");
            }
        }
    }
}