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I have a tar archive in which I have a directory which I need to extract in a given directory. For example: I have a directory
TarPrefix/x/y/z
in a tar archive I want to extract it in a given target directory for example: extracted/a/ this directory should contain all the files and directories contained in directory TarPrefix/x/y/z.
subdir_and_files = [ tarinfo for tarinfo in tar.getmembers()
if tarinfo.name.startswith("subfolder/")
]
to get the list of all the members in the directory path "subfolder/" and then I extract it using tar.extractall(extracted/a,subdir_and_files)
but it extracts all the members with their directory path For example this results in extracted/a/x/y/z.
Could you please help me in extracting these files in the given folder.
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Open File Explorer and find the zipped folder. To unzip the entire folder, right-click to select Extract All, and then follow the instructions. To unzip a single file or folder, double-click the zipped folder to open it. Then, drag or copy the item from the zipped folder to a new location.
To unzip a file in Python, use the ZipFile. extractall() method. The extractall() method takes a path, members, pwd as an argument and extracts all the contents.
Use os. listdir() function! We'll make a function for this, which simply gets the full path, and returns a list of all such names.
It works just in the same way. First make sure that you create the specific directory that you want to extract into by using: Now we will extract the contents of documents.tgz file to separate /tmp/tgz/ directory. Again repeating that you must create a separate directory before unpacking files:
os.listdir (): This method in python is used to get the list of all files and directories in the specified directory. If we don’t specify any directory, then a list of files and directories in the current working directory will be returned.
First make sure that you create the specific directory that you want to extract into by using: # mkdir -p /tmp/tgz Now we will extract the contents of documents.tgz file to separate /tmp/tgz/ directory. # tar -zvxf documents.tgz -C /tmp/tgz/
Directory.GetFiles (“Your main directory path”,"*",searchOption.AllDirectories) The above solution absolutely works, just to add to the above.
Looks like you may have already found an answer, but here's my version anyway:
import sys, tarfile
def get_members(tar, prefix):
if not prefix.endswith('/'):
prefix += '/'
offset = len(prefix)
for tarinfo in tar.getmembers():
if tarinfo.name.startswith(prefix):
tarinfo.name = tarinfo.name[offset:]
yield tarinfo
args = sys.argv[1:]
if len(args) > 1:
tar = tarfile.open(args[0])
path = args[2] if len(args) > 2 else '.'
tar.extractall(path, get_members(tar, args[1]))
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