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you can provide the top level directory where it will extract with the -e command line switch

• amelius 4y ago
  No, sorry for being unclear, I mean if the archive contains a toplevel folder e.g. binutils-1.0.0, that I can rename it to binutils before extracting (so I don't end up with the binutils-1.0.0 on my filesystem), and preferably in such a way that I don't have to know the toplevel folder name before extracting.
  • jenscow 4y ago
    tar -xf example.tar -C temp-dir && mv temp-dir/* $(echo temp-dir/* | sed -r 's,.*/([^/]+)-[0-9.]+,./\1,')
    • amelius 4y ago
      Yeah, exactly the kind of command-line that I would like to avoid ;)
      • nerdponx 4y ago
        Among other things, it's a shame that there's no dedicated standard-ish CLI tool for manipulating pathnames.
  • qkaiser 4y ago
    Sadly no, unblob cannot do that. I'll look into it tho.