From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: non-interactive extracting the contents of a tar-file Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:18:26 -0400 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87ekan7xxw.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119943713 9589 80.91.229.2 (28 Jun 2005 07:28:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:28:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 28 09:28:33 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnAVt-0007th-4o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:28:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnAdg-0000rC-Iw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:36:12 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8lp6VqeC0hBalbYiweoNf5hB4r4= Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.71.35.153 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1119943105 67.71.35.153 (Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:18:25 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:18:25 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132212 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:27687 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27687 > 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