* Lars Wirzenius [Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:33:32 +0200]: > to, 2009-01-08 kello 22:12 +0100, Adeodato Simó kirjoitti: > > Package: moreutils > > Severity: wishlist
> > Hello, > > Here's a suggestion for moreutils: a command that implements the > > tarball-unpacking logic of dpkg-source. That is, it unpacks a tarball > > into a named directory, but if the tarball unpacked to a single > > directory, all its contents are moved one level up (and that root > > directory rmdir'ed). > I haven't used it myself, but atool would seem to match this at a quick > glance: > Package: atool > Depends: perl > Description: A tool for managing file archives of various types > atool is a script for managing file archives of various types (tar, > tar+gzip, zip etc). The main command is probably aunpack, > extracting files from an archive. It overcomes the dreaded "multiple > files in archive root" problem by first extracting to a unique > subdirectory, and then moving back the files if possible. aunpack > also prevents local files from being overwritten by mistake. > . > Other commands provided are apack (create archives), als (list files > in archives), and acat (extract files to standard out). > Homepage: http://www.nongnu.org/atool/ > Dato, does that do what you want? Oh, I see, I didn't know about this package. It doesn't do exactly what I meant, because you can't specify the directory you want the files extracted to. The program could be patched to do that, I guess, though I'll note it's a 2,000 lines script where a Python script that does my suggested functionality is hardly 50. On the other hand, since I'm only concerned with files in tar format, I wonder if it wouldn't be a better idea to try and get the functionality into tar itself directly. Thanks for the pointer, Lars. For now I will continue using my script, and think about the "into tar proper" idea. Joey, please close this bug if you don't think such a script has a place in moreutils. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting. -- e.e. cummings -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
