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

[Tim X]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> 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>
> 
> --
> Mit friedvollen Grüßen
> 
>    Pete
> 
> Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. - Groucho Marx
> 
Or from dired, hit !

,----[ C-h f dired-do-shell-command RET ]
| dired-do-shell-command is an interactive compiled Lisp function in 
`dired-aux'.
| (dired-do-shell-command COMMAND &optional ARG FILE-LIST)
| 
| Run a shell command COMMAND on the marked files.
| If no files are marked or a specific numeric prefix arg is given,
| the next ARG files are used.  Just C-u means the current file.
| The prompt mentions the file(s) or the marker, as appropriate.
| 
| If there is output, it goes to a separate buffer.
| 
| Normally the command is run on each file individually.
| However, if there is a `*' in the command then it is run
| just once with the entire file list substituted there.
| 
| If there is no `*', but a `?' in the command then it is still run
| on each file individually but with the filename substituted there
| instead of at the end of the command.
| 
| No automatic redisplay of dired buffers is attempted, as there's no
| telling what files the command may have changed.  Type
| M-x dired-do-redisplay to redisplay the marked files.
| 
| The shell command has the top level directory as working directory, so
| output files usually are created there instead of in a subdir.
| 
| In a noninteractive call (from Lisp code), you must specify
| the list of file names explicitly with the FILE-LIST argument.
`----

Tim

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