From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: non-interactive extracting the contents of a tar-file
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:18:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ekan7xxw.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uekaoxfmg.fsf@sdm.de
> 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)?
The gunzipping needs to be done by an external program, but the untarring
can be performed by Emacs itself. See install.el for an example of how you
can do that using tar-untar-buffer. It's pretty untested code, tho.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-28 7:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-27 10:23 non-interactive extracting the contents of a tar-file Klaus Berndl
2005-06-27 10:51 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-06-27 19:30 ` J. Alejandro Noli
2005-06-28 7:18 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-06-28 8:39 ` Klaus Berndl
2005-06-28 17:02 ` Edward O'Connor
[not found] ` <mailman.1302.1119869779.2857.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-06-27 11:11 ` Klaus Berndl
2005-06-27 11:33 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-06-28 8:16 ` Tim X
2005-06-28 8:42 ` Klaus Berndl
2005-06-28 9:36 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-06-28 8:12 ` Tim X
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2005-06-27 11:47 klaus.berndl
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