Add uncompress module

[J0WI]

Moving this from https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/23048

SUMMARY

Add uncompress module, for people who wish to uncompress things like .gz or .bz2 or .xz which are not archives, and would not be appropriate for the unarchive module.

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

uncompress

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[Warkdev]

Is this issue still relevant ? It seems that this is already handled somewhere else: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/unarchive_module.html#notes

[felixfontein]

unarchive is extracting archives. An uncompress module would uncompress files. That's something else. (For example uncompress would convert a .tar.gz file to a .gz file, while unarchive would extract the tarball.)

[J0WI]

(For example uncompress would convert a .tar.gz file to a .gz file, while unarchive would extract the tarball.)

* .tar

This is useful for .img.gz, .sql.gz, .json.gz etc. where you just have a single compressed file without any tarball wrapper.

[kagehisa]

It would really be helpful. At the moment the only way of unpacking a zipped file is via the command module. I would expect Ansible to be able to handle a zipped file. This seems to be an issue since 2016.

[felixfontein]

@kagehisa Ansible has been able to extract ZIP archives for a long time, see the ansible.builtin.unarchive module: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/unarchive_module.html#notes

This issue is about uncompressing files, not about extracting archives.

[kagehisa]

Ok I don't want to spark the same discussions aubout semantics as in the previous issues for the unarchive module. I'm talking about a zipped file in the context of compression. So taking something.bz2/.gz/.xz and making it to something. What this something is should not matter.