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.

Cross-platform permissions

On Windows, directories created by the filesystem often lack execute permissions, which can cause "Permission denied" errors when extracting tarballs on Unix systems. This package automatically detects and fixes this issue on Windows by letting Archiver use proper defaults for directories without execute permissions.

If you need to explicitly control this behavior, you can use {mode: null} to always use Archiver's defaults, regardless of the source file permissions.