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Ethan
Ethan

Reputation: 167

How can you archive with tar in NodeJS while only storing the subdirectory you want?

Basically I want to do the equivalent of this How to strip path while archiving with TAR but with the tar commands imported to NodeJS, so currently I'm doing this:

const gzip = zlib.createGzip();
const pack = new tar.Pack(prefix="");
const source = Readable.from('public/images/');
const destination = fs.createWriteStream('public/archive.tar.gz');
pipeline(source, pack, gzip, destination, (err) => {
    if (err) {
        console.error('An error occurred:', err);
        process.exitCode = 1;
    }
});

But doing so leaves me with files like: "/public/images/a.png" and "public/images/b.png", when what I want is files like "/a.png" and "/b.png". I want to know how I can add to this process to strip out the unneeded directories, while keeping the files where they are.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1307

Answers (1)

Simon Kocurek
Simon Kocurek

Reputation: 2166

You need to change working directory:

// cwd The current working directory for creating the archive. Defaults to process.cwd().
new tar.Pack({ cwd: "./public/images" });
const source = Readable.from('');

Source: documentation of node-tar

Example: https://github.com/npm/node-tar/blob/main/test/pack.js#L93

Upvotes: 1

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