Re: non-interactive extracting the contents of a tar-file

[J. Alejandro Noli <alejandro@janoli.com.ar>]

Klaus Berndl <klaus.berndl@sdm.de> writes:

> I know tar-mode and it displays a dired-like listing of the contents.
> So the user can mark entries and extrakt them to a buffer...
>
> What i want is the following:
> 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)?

Have you seen emacs-goodies-el ?

there you have M-x browse-huge-tar-file, and it can work on a gziped one.
>
> Ciao,
> Klaus
>
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