How to untargz files using maven?

Question

Using maven, I download some Chef cookbooks.

Received files are in the .tgz format, and I want to unpack them. How can I do that ? Is there any useful plugin ?

Answer 1

From what I know, .tgz can be unpack via two commands:

   gzip -d file.tgz
   tar xvf file.tar

So you can use maven-antrun-plugin to execute these two tasks:

   <gunzip src="tools.tgz"/>
   <untar src="tools.tar" dest="${tools.home}"/>

Ant task reference: gunzip and untar

Answer 2

I would suggest to use the truezip-maven-plugin to handle such archives.