using System.Text;

using ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.GZip;

using ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Tar;

using System.IO;

using System;

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var directory = $"/tmp/{Guid.NewGuid()}";

Directory.CreateDirectory(directory);

File.WriteAllText($"{directory}/1.txt", "1");

​

var archiveFilePath = $"/tmp/{Guid.NewGuid()}.tar.gz";

​

using (var archiveStream = new GZipOutputStream(File.Create(archiveFilePath)))

{

    using (TarArchive tarArchive = TarArchive.CreateOutputTarArchive(archiveStream, Encoding.UTF8))

    {

        tarArchive.ProgressMessageEvent += (archive, entry, message) => {

            Console.WriteLine($"CREATE: {entry.Name}: {message}");

        };

        tarArchive.RootPath = directory;

        // this is workaround for another issue: tarArchive.RootPath is ignored otherwise

        while (tarArchive.RootPath.StartsWith("/", StringComparison.Ordinal))

        {

            tarArchive.RootPath = tarArchive.RootPath.Substring(1);

        }

        var entry = TarEntry.CreateEntryFromFile(directory);

        // ExtractContents fails without this line of code below:  Parent traversal in paths is not allowed

        //entry.Name += "./";

        tarArchive.WriteEntry(entry, true);

    }

}

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using (var archiveStream = File.OpenRead(archiveFilePath))

{

    using (var gzipStream = new GZipInputStream(archiveStream))

    {

        using (var tarArchive = TarArchive.CreateInputTarArchive(gzipStream, Encoding.UTF8))

        {

            tarArchive.ProgressMessageEvent += (archive, entry, message) => {

                Console.WriteLine($"EXTRACT: {entry.Name}: {message}");

            };

            tarArchive.ExtractContents($"/tmp/{Guid.NewGuid()}");

        }

    }

}

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Console.WriteLine("Done");