Comments on: Checking tarball contents before extraction http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2008/11/10/checking-tarball-contents-before-extraction/ the personal blog of Stuart Colville covering modern web development techniques and best practices Mon, 21 May 2012 05:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stuart Colville http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2008/11/10/checking-tarball-contents-before-extraction/comment-page-1/#comment-64670 Stuart Colville Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:16:57 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/?p=402#comment-64670 @Peter: Nice tip thanks @Peter: Nice tip thanks

]]> By: Peter Bengtsson http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2008/11/10/checking-tarball-contents-before-extraction/comment-page-1/#comment-64666 Peter Bengtsson Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:31:58 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/?p=402#comment-64666 Use atools. It comes with apack and aunpack. Now you no longer need to remember the different options for tar, unzip, zip, rar, bz2 etc. Plus it ALWAYS puts things in a directory if the there are more than one file in the archive. To unpack $ aunpack foo.tgz $ cd foo To pack $ apack files.zip /home/peterbe/files Use atools. It comes with apack and aunpack. Now you no longer need to remember the different options for tar, unzip, zip, rar, bz2 etc.
Plus it ALWAYS puts things in a directory if the there are more than one file in the archive.

To unpack
$ aunpack foo.tgz
$ cd foo

To pack
$ apack files.zip /home/peterbe/files

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