Create tarball from files


Keywords
gulpplugin, tar, tarball, archive, archiver, compress, compression, file, files, stream, streams, gulp-plugin, javascript, nodejs
License
MIT
Install
npm install gulp-tar@1.7.0

Documentation

gulp-tar

Create tarball from files

Install

npm install --save-dev gulp-tar

Usage

import gulp from 'gulp';
import tar from 'gulp-tar';
import gzip from 'gulp-gzip';

export default () => (
	gulp.src('src/*')
		.pipe(tar('archive.tar'))
		.pipe(gzip())
		.pipe(gulp.dest('dist'))
);

API

tar(filename, options?)

filename

Type: string

The filename for the output tar archive.

options

Type: object

Default options passed to Archiver's constructor and merged into the data passed to its append method.