1Archive::Tar::File(3) User Contributed Perl DocumentationArchive::Tar::File(3)
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6 Archive::Tar::File - a subclass for in-memory extracted file from
7 Archive::Tar
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10 my @items = $tar->get_files;
11 print $_->name, ' ', $_->size, "\n" for @items;
13 print $object->get_content;
15 $object->replace_content('new content');
16 $object->rename( 'new/full/path/to/file.c' );
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20 Archive::Tar::Files provides a neat little object layer for in-memory
21 extracted files. It's mostly used internally in Archive::Tar to tidy up
22 the code, but there's no reason users shouldn't use this API as well.
23 Accessors
25 A lot of the methods in this package are accessors to the various
26 fields in the tar header:
27 name
29 The file's name
30 mode
32 The file's mode
33 uid The user id owning the file
35 gid The group id owning the file
37 size
39 File size in bytes
40 mtime
42 Modification time. Adjusted to mac-time on MacOS if required
43 chksum
45 Checksum field for the tar header
46 type
48 File type -- numeric, but comparable to exported constants -- see
49 Archive::Tar's documentation
50 linkname
52 If the file is a symlink, the file it's pointing to
53 magic
55 Tar magic string -- not useful for most users
56 version
58 Tar version string -- not useful for most users
59 uname
61 The user name that owns the file
62 gname
64 The group name that owns the file
65 devmajor
67 Device major number in case of a special file
68 devminor
70 Device minor number in case of a special file
71 prefix
73 Any directory to prefix to the extraction path, if any
74 raw Raw tar header -- not useful for most users
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78 Archive::Tar::File->new( file => $path )
79 Returns a new Archive::Tar::File object from an existing file.
80 Returns undef on failure.
82 Archive::Tar::File->new( data => $path, $data, $opt )
84 Returns a new Archive::Tar::File object from data.
85 $path defines the file name (which need not exist), $data the file
87 contents, and $opt is a reference to a hash of attributes which may be
88 used to override the default attributes (fields in the tar header),
89 which are described above in the Accessors section.
90 Returns undef on failure.
92 Archive::Tar::File->new( chunk => $chunk )
94 Returns a new Archive::Tar::File object from a raw 512-byte tar archive
95 chunk.
96 Returns undef on failure.
98 $bool = $file->extract( [ $alternative_name ] )
100 Extract this object, optionally to an alternative name.
101 See "Archive::Tar->extract_file" for details.
103 Returns true on success and false on failure.
105 $path = $file->full_path
107 Returns the full path from the tar header; this is basically a
108 concatenation of the "prefix" and "name" fields.
109 $bool = $file->validate
111 Done by Archive::Tar internally when reading the tar file: validate the
112 header against the checksum to ensure integer tar file.
113 Returns true on success, false on failure
115 $bool = $file->has_content
117 Returns a boolean to indicate whether the current object has content.
118 Some special files like directories and so on never will have any
119 content. This method is mainly to make sure you don't get warnings for
120 using uninitialized values when looking at an object's content.
121 $content = $file->get_content
123 Returns the current content for the in-memory file
124 $cref = $file->get_content_by_ref
126 Returns the current content for the in-memory file as a scalar
127 reference. Normal users won't need this, but it will save memory if you
128 are dealing with very large data files in your tar archive, since it
129 will pass the contents by reference, rather than make a copy of it
130 first.
131 $bool = $file->replace_content( $content )
133 Replace the current content of the file with the new content. This only
134 affects the in-memory archive, not the on-disk version until you write
135 it.
136 Returns true on success, false on failure.
138 $bool = $file->rename( $new_name )
140 Rename the current file to $new_name.
141 Note that you must specify a Unix path for $new_name, since per tar
143 standard, all files in the archive must be Unix paths.
144 Returns true on success and false on failure.
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148 To quickly check the type of a "Archive::Tar::File" object, you can use
149 the following methods:
150 $file->is_file
152 Returns true if the file is of type "file"
153 $file->is_dir
155 Returns true if the file is of type "dir"
156 $file->is_hardlink
158 Returns true if the file is of type "hardlink"
159 $file->is_symlink
161 Returns true if the file is of type "symlink"
162 $file->is_chardev
164 Returns true if the file is of type "chardev"
165 $file->is_blockdev
167 Returns true if the file is of type "blockdev"
168 $file->is_fifo
170 Returns true if the file is of type "fifo"
171 $file->is_socket
173 Returns true if the file is of type "socket"
174 $file->is_longlink
176 Returns true if the file is of type "LongLink". Should not happen
177 after a successful "read".
178 $file->is_label
180 Returns true if the file is of type "Label". Should not happen
181 after a successful "read".
182 $file->is_unknown
184 Returns true if the file type is "unknown"
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