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Discussion on: Open Source Adventures: Episode 17: Universal Command Line Unpacker unall

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Tomasz Wegrzanowski

It would be fine if smart-autowrap and autotrash-on-success were some non-default command line switches, but no tool even offers that.

The problem with manual wrap tools like 7zip offer is that you need to know if archive is already wrapped or not, or it will double wrap, so you then need to unwrap things.

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Jay Jeckel

Fair enough, more options are good, so some cli switches for that functionality would be nice. If I remember right, the 7zip tool has a cli switch to drop the root archive folder, effectively making all archives loose file containers, but as I recall it has some issues and doesn't reliably work across all archive types.