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In an application we use the zip4j library to decompress zip files. 

File toBeExtractedFile = new File("valid/path/to/File");
ZipFile zipFile = new ZipFile(toBeExtractedFile);
zipFile.setFileNameCharset(StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name);
zipFile.extractAll("valid/path")

With .zip files this code works perfectly fine. But when done with a .tar file, this wil throw a new ZipException("zip headers not found. probably not a zip file"); Can the zip4j library extract TAR files when given additional info or parameters or do i have to resort to using something else like a TarArchiveInputstream?

Stephan Hogenboom
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No, ZIP and TAR are two different archive formats. You can use Apache Commons Compress which supports TAR format.

Karol Dowbecki
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