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Re: non-interactive extracting the contents of a tar-file
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Klaus Berndl |
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Re: non-interactive extracting the contents of a tar-file |
Date: |
28 Jun 2005 10:42:11 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
On 28 Jun 2005, Tim X. wrote:
> Klaus Berndl <klaus.berndl@sdm.de> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> > >
> > > Am 27.06.2005 um 12:23 schrieb Klaus Berndl:
> > >
> > > > Is it possible with tar-mode (or other already existing elisp-code),
> > > > to extract the full contents of a tar-file to a certain directory (or
> > > > at least to default-directory)?
> > >
> > > There is an easier work-around in Emacs shell:
> > >
> > > cd <some directory>
> > > tar xf <some tar file>
> >
> > Hmm, i forgot to mention that i want it do without external programs like
> > tar and gz!
> >
> But doesn't emacs tar-mode just use tar 'under the hood'?
No, untarring is done via elisp - see tar-mode.el
>
> It may be possible to work out how to extract files from a tar archive
> reasonably easily, but the unzipping/decompressing is going to be
> difficult/impossible. Also, keep in mind that as GNU tar also supports
> bzip2 compression, we are likely to see archive.tar.bz2 as well as
> archive.tar.gz more often.
yes, good point!
>
> Why the need not to use the correct tools? Is it because of platforms
> which may not have tar or tar and gunzip equivelants and if so, what
> platforms?
I had the wish to do it completely from within Emacs for my package so the
user has no need for installing stuff like tar or gzip (especially in
Windows-envs) - but the latter one is impossible, i see it now...
Klaus
>
> Tim
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