feat(cmd): Make "extract" more user-friendly, matching common archive tools#653
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@willscott @rvagg Gentle ping, this and #642 will allow me to implement support for reading CAR files in KDE's Ark. |
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I'm fine with the changes to output / specifying of partial extraction. I think you should retain the ability to stream from stdin or pipe from output of another command. there's no reason to remove that functionality and it does not reduce consistency. (e.g. tar / gz / etc all support extraction from stdin) |
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Thank you. Let's use the dash ( |
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Usage: car extract --file file.car [--output output] [mydir/mysubdir] [mydir/mysubdir2/file] [mydir2] [myfile]...
This also makes "extract" much more consistent with "create" and matching common archive tools:
- Not specifying any paths results in a complete extraction.
- To read from stdin a single dash ('-') is specified as the input file.
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This also makes
extractmuch more consistent withcreateand matching common archive tools:-) is specified as the input file.