Comments on: unp - Unpack (almost) everything with one command

By: Arnaud Diederen

Arnaud Diederen — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:43:40 +0000

“e” doesn’t seem to have an option similar to “unp”‘s ‘smart’ mode (-U), which will avoid carelessly-created archives from polluting your current working directory:

$ unp -h
[...]
-u Special helper mode.
For most archive types:
- create directory /
- extract contents there
For Debian/Ubuntu packages:
- extract data.tar.gz after each operation in local directory
- extract control.tar.gz into control//
-U Smart mode, acts like -u (see above) if archive contains multiple
elements but if there is only one file/directory element then it’s stored
in the current directory.
[...]

Also:
alias e=unp

There.
No ruby.

By: steve123

steve123 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:08:28 +0000

that only unrar’s every file and is very long e is just a simple command

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:52:14 +0000

Why not:

for f in *;do case “$(echo $f|sed “s/.*\.$[a-z\.]*$/\1/g”)” in zip)unzip -qqo $f&&rm $f;;tar.gz|tar.bz2)tar xf $f&&rm $f;;tar.bz2)tar yxf $f&&rm $f;;rar)unrar e -o+ -r -y $f&&rm $f;;7z)7z e -qqo $f;;esac;done

By: steve123

steve123 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:09:30 +0000

unp is a package whereas e isn’t it’s just a script and yes you need to install ruby but it’s still only 1 package you need to install and also e is easier to to remember and quicker to type

also for multiple file in a folder here is an example

e *

unp *.*

By: Zap

Zap — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:56:08 +0000

hm. seems to me that both tools are quite similar.
but with using “e” i have to install ruby.
why should i do this, when unp(perl based) works out of the box?

By: steve123

steve123 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:53:36 +0000

“e” is MUCH better then unp try it out:

http://fail2care.com/e-extract-any-archive