Re: Flat extract option

On 25/04/2021 11:04, Tobias Specht wrote:
> Hi Denis,

Hey Tobias!

>  
> I'm working a little bit on gdar again and I want to add the flat extract option "-f|--flat" of dar.
> I found the corresponding libdar api archive_options_extract.set_flat and I have a first draft.
> 
> My question is a little bit more in general about the flat extract option.
> As far as I understand, the option is meant to extract all files, regardless of the folder structure.
> Thats useful if I want to restore some files in a different directory, without the whole tree.

...more precisely it restores files in the directory pointed to by the
-R option.

> I was also thinking about the use-case, to extract a whole folder at a different location (without the upper tree structure).
> For example, we have the following folder structure:
> /
> /foo
> /foo/bar
> /foo/bar/file1.txt
> /foo/bar/file2.txt
> 
> And I want to extract the folder bar/ independently of its parent foo.
> 
> Is this possible with dar?

not actually.

> If not, do you think this would be worth thinking about?

The questions is then why not having saved the data with -R pointing to
foo for the archive to not contain the /foo/ part in any path files?

> 
> Best regards,
> Tobias
> 
> 

Cheers,
Denis