On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 02:33:03PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> I'm currently using
>
> DIRECTORY=`tar -tvf ${PACKAGES}/${CURRENT} | \
> head -n 1 | awk '{ print $6 }' | sed s'@^./@@' | \
> cut -d '/' -f 1`
>
> where PACKAGES points to the source code, typically /sources, and
> CURRENT contains the name of the tarball. The sed is because some
> tarballs have contained names beginning ./ (possibly an old version
> of util-linux). The fact is, there are loads of packages whose name
My various personal scripts use something like this. And I believe
jhalfs does the same, too. It's useful to drop the above into an
'unpack' file and move that to a bin directory in your PATH, perhaps
adding something like the following:
[ -d ${DIRECTORY} ] && rm -rf ${DIRECTORY}
tar -xf ${PACKAGES}/${CURRENT}
echo "${DIRECTORY}"
Then use unpack instead of calling tar directly.
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JH
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