How to unpack files using maven?

Question

Using maven, I am downloading cookbooks.

The resulting files are in a format .tgz

and I want to unpack them. How can i do this? Is there any useful plugin out there?

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Riduidel Jan 25. '13 at 9:46

2 answers

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

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khmarbaise Jan 25. At 16:14

Jintian DENG · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-25T11:15:40+0000

From what I know, .tgz can be unpacked using two commands:

   gzip -d file.tgz
   tar xvf file.tar

Thus, you can use the maven-antrun-plugin to accomplish these two tasks:

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

Ant task assignment: gunzip and untar