Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and extracting archives, .zip at the moment.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Michael wrote:
> On Monday 13 January 2025 14:17:41 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote:
>>
> It does this by default when you select to 'Extract here'.  For example, the 
> archive foo.zip will be extracted into a new directory called foo/ and all 
> compressed files in foo.zip will be extracted into foo/.
>
> If you do this a second time, it will create a new directory foo(1)/ and 
> extract the compressed files in there so as to not overwrite the previously 
> extracted files in foo/.
>

That seems to work like the old way.  I guess the default changed but it
didn't make sense given how it used to work. 


>> That comes in handy when you have lots of .zip or .tar files
>> to extract.  What it does is create a new directory with the same name,
>> less the extension, as the original .zip or .tar file and then puts the
>> extracted files inside that directory.  It repeats for every .zip file. 
>> On this new thing, I selected Extract to and in the next window I
>> selected Extraction into subfolder.  Thing is, if I have more than one
>> .zip file, it puts ALL the contents of ALL .zip files into ONE
>> directory, overwriting/renaming etc duplicates.  That's not what I
>> want.  I did a search, I found someone else with the same complaint.  I
>> didn't find a proper way to accomplish the same thing it used to do tho.
> You can type in what you want to call the new subdirectory (options shown in 
> top right of the pop up) so as to not overwrite existing subdirectories/files.
>

I may have to play with that some more.  Sometimes, I have to see it to
figure out what it is doing. 

>> I tried to figure out how to do this on the command line but my head
>> hurts.  Banging that wall isn't any fun. 
> I don't think a single command can achieve this.  Unzip will ask if you want 
> to overwrite files already extracted in a previous attempt and it will create 
> a directory to store the extracted files if one does not exist, but it will 
> not ask to rename an existing directory.
>
>
>> Anyone been able to figure out how to do this?  I got a few hundred .zip
>> files and doing them one by one just isn't a good option. 
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-) 


I figured if there was a command line way, it would require sed, awk,
find and other things I don't understand.  It didn't take me long to
figure out the command line way was harder than trying to figure out the
GUI way. 

Thanks much. 

Dale

:-)  :-)