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Asked: 2026-05-12T22:16:40+00:00

I am receiving a TGZ file that will contain one plain text file along

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I am receiving a TGZ file that will contain one plain text file along with possibly one or more nested TGZ files. I have figured out how to decompress the main TGZ file and read the plain text file contained in it, but I have not been able to figure out how to recognize and decompress the nested TGZ files. Has anyone come across this problem before?

Also, I do not have control over the file I am receiving, so I cannot change the format of a TGZ file containing nested TGZ files. One other caveat (even though I don’t think it matters) is that these files are being compressed and tarred in a Unix or Linux environment.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try the SharpZipLib (http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/Download.aspx) free library.

    It lets you work with TGZ and has methods to test files before trying to inflate them; so you can either rely on the file extensions being correct, or test them individually to see if you can read them as compressed files – then inflate them once the main file has been decompressed.

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