GUnzip/BUnzip2/UnXZ

Description

Expands a resource packed using GZip, BZip2 or XZ.

If dest is a directory the name of the destination file is the same as src (with the .gz, .bz2 or .xz extension removed if present). If dest is omitted, the parent dir of src is taken. The file is only expanded if the source resource is newer than the destination file, or when the destination file does not exist.

XZ compression support has been added since Apache Ant 1.10.1 and depends on external libraries not included in the Ant distribution. See Library Dependencies for more information.

Parameters

Parameters specified as nested elements

any resource or single element resource collection

The specified resource will be used as src.

Examples

<gunzip src="test.tar.gz"/>

expands test.tar.gz to test.tar

<bunzip2 src="test.tar.bz2"/>

expands test.tar.bz2 to test.tar

<unxz src="test.tar.xz"/>

expands test.tar.xz to test.tar

<gunzip src="test.tar.gz" dest="test2.tar"/>

expands test.tar.gz to test2.tar

<gunzip src="test.tar.gz" dest="subdir"/>

expands test.tar.gz to subdir/test.tar (assuming subdir is a directory).

<gunzip dest=".">
  <url url="http://example.org/archive.tar.gz"/>
</gunzip>

downloads http://example.org/archive.tar.gz and expands it to archive.tar in the project's basedir on the fly.

Related tasks

<gunzip src="some-archive.gz" dest="some-dest-dir"/>

is identical to

<copy todir="some-dest-dir">
  <gzipresource>
    <file file="some-archive.gz"/>
  </gzipresource>
  <mapper type="glob" from="*.gz" to="*"/>
</copy>

The same is also true for <bunzip2> and <bzip2resource> or <unxz> and <xzresource>. <copy> offers additional features like filtering files on the fly, allowing a file to be mapped to multiple destinations, preserving the last modified time or a configurable file system timestamp granularity.