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stephenl7797

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Registered: 2014-02-09

Posts: 11

Xfce + Thunar -- untar to new directory

Whats the easiest way to untar a file to a new directory. For example a tar file a in directory 'dir' has files b and c. When I extract a, I want b and c to be in a new folder called 'dir/a/' instead of just 'dir/'.

toz

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Registered: 2011-10-28

Posts: 513

Re: Xfce + Thunar -- untar to new directory

You can either use the thunar-archive-plugin or create a Thunar Custom Action like:

Name: Auto-extract to folder
Command:

for file in %F; do dir=`echo "$file"|sed 's/\.\+\(tar\|tgz\|tbz2\|txz\).*$//g'`;mkdir "$dir";cd "$dir";tar xf "$file";cd -;done

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nullified

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From: Massachusetts, USA

Registered: 2013-12-09

Posts: 468

Re: Xfce + Thunar -- untar to new directory

thunar-archive-plugin and file-roller  get the job done easily

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