{"id":17625,"date":"2016-06-25T00:34:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T17:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/?p=17625"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:33:53","slug":"extract-files-build-task-for-team-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/extract-files-build-task-for-team-services\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Team Services build task to easily extract files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team Services sprint 101 introduces a new build task, Extract Files.\u00a0 Use it to easily extract archives during your Team Foundation Server (TFS) build process.\u00a0 The Extract Files\u00a0task is cross platform and uses native unzip, tar, and 7-Zip\u00a0on Mac and Linux.\u00a0 For Windows, we bundled 7-Zip with the task so you can extract\u00a0anything supported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.7-zip.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">7-Zip<\/a>, which means you can create tarballs on your on Windows\u00a0build machines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/extractFiles.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17635\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/extractFiles.png\" alt=\"extractFiles\" width=\"963\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Team Services Extract Files Build Task\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r_7-XxjplcA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The build task is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Microsoft\/vsts-tasks\" target=\"_blank\">open sourced<\/a>, so feel free to use it\u00a0to create\u00a0your own build extensions. If you have any suggestions or issues, reach out to us on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Microsoft\/vsts-tasks\/issues\" target=\"_blank\">GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Services sprint 101 introduces a new build task, Extract Files.\u00a0 Use it to easily extract archives during your Team Foundation Server (TFS) build process.\u00a0 The Extract Files\u00a0task is cross platform and uses native unzip, tar, and 7-Zip\u00a0on Mac and Linux.\u00a0 For Windows, we bundled 7-Zip with the task so you can extract\u00a0anything supported by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azure-devops-server","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Team Services sprint 101 introduces a new build task, Extract Files.\u00a0 Use it to easily extract archives during your Team Foundation Server (TFS) build process.\u00a0 The Extract Files\u00a0task is cross platform and uses native unzip, tar, and 7-Zip\u00a0on Mac and Linux.\u00a0 For Windows, we bundled 7-Zip with the task so you can extract\u00a0anything supported by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}