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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by myxi@toast.ooo to c/programming@programming.dev

I like trying out new things quite frequently and often times these tools are packed in an archive file. But I'm in constant fear whenever I am to unpack those archives because sometimes there are hundreds of files and the person who packed them wouldn't even do the bare minimum of nesting them inside a directory.

Dolphin (file explorer) had a useful thing where it would detect whether the contents are already nested and if they are not only then it would nest them inside a directory. I tried searching for something similar for the CLI but couldn't find anything so here it is. Another benefit is that it supports .zip, .tar.xz, .tar.gz simultaneously so I don't need to deal with manpages of unzip, tar thousand times just because I keep forgetting how to use them. Now it's just vert x file.zip.

I can add support for a few more formats but I don't feel the need at least for now (PRs welcome).

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[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Unzip tools should always do it in a new folder.

I can deal with home/ZipName/ZipName. I have no patience whatsoever for a program dumping randomly-dated files onto an existing directory.

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work.

this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2024
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