From: Claus Spitzer <DocBoobenstein@...>
Date: 2004-05-02T11:08:15+09:00
Subject: Re: The Art of Untarring (Was: SciTE Ruby Lexer)

On Sun, 2 May 2004 08:50:31 +0900, Simon Strandgaard
<neoneye@adslhome.dk> wrote:
> 
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> 
> 
> Its interesting to see how others deal with tar.gz files.
> 
> It would be nice if we had an 'utopia untar' which per default
> ensured that the content got extracted into a top-dir. If the file
> didn't got one, a top-dir was created.
> 
> Same senario with unzip.
> 
> Maybe if untar+unzip+unrar were combined and named unpack.
> 
> Does such tool exist?
> 
> --
> Simon Strandgaard
> 
> 

I'm not aware of the existence of such a tool, but I'm sure a small
script could be hacked up to do this... I've done similar ones before.
Also, if you bug me long enough I'll probably give in and write you
one... Just don't complain about my syntax horrors ;) (seriously, I'm
not that bad, and I document well, so you'll be able to hack it back
into your liking). Cheers!
 � �-CWS