From: Klaus Berndl <klaus.berndl@sdm.de>
Subject: Re: non-interactive extracting the contents of a tar-file
Date: 28 Jun 2005 10:42:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1x6myisc.fsf@sdm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87d5q6c2w9.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au
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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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
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 [this message]
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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