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


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: non-interactive extracting the contents of a tar-file
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:18:26 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> 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


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