🚀[Feature]: Expand-GzArchive

[o-l-a-v]

Description

.NET has built in functionality for extracting GZ / gzip, like shown here:

• https://scatteredcode.net/download-and-extract-gzip-tar-with-powershell/

PowerShell module for archive has been archived, so won't come to PowerShell natively any time soon.

• https://github.com/PowerShell/Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive

Idea: An "Expand-GzArchive" function?

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Originally opened in the .github repo, I got sent there when creating an issue in this repo using the GitHub app for Android.

• Extract gz .github#31

Seems to be a known issue/shortcoming that issue templates does not work with Android:

• 2022-04-28: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/15721
• 2024-02-17: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/108619
• 2024-04-10: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/118586

But haven't seen an issue on being redirected to the .github repo if such is present.

[MariusStorhaug]

Moved from Utilities

[MariusStorhaug]

Olav Rønnestad Birkeland (@o-l-a-v) : How I understand this; the approach supports gz archives only. Do you know if there is any built in codec for tar.xz and other type of file compressors? Pref native .net classes/methods.

I downloaded tar.xz files from ryanoasis/nerd-fonts | GitHub in a Windows Sandbox instance to be sure my dev tools didn't have it included. It can expand it natively it seems. Sorry if you feel its unrelated, just a curiosity if anything. Just thinking if 'only' gz type of compression is 'enough' :)

[o-l-a-v]

Support for more archive file formats would be more great, I agree.

I only know of .gz, I came across it when I had the need to decompress logs from Cloudflare Logpush.

Edit: Tar is probably doable:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8863875/decompress-tar-files-using-c-sharp

Edit 2: Maybe one can piggyback libarchive which Windows is using for adding support for more formats?

• https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-11s-native-file-archive-is-impressive-as-7-zip-plays-catch-up-with-zstd-support/