Hi James, > I am not sure if someone else may have mentioned this before or not, but I > was curious if anyone had ever suggested a new parm to allow the execution > of a command or script at the end of extraction. Basically, after all file > extraction is done, a separate shell would be forked and the command/script > run before tar exits (i.e. tar/gtar -zx -e script.sh - f > tarball.tar.gz).
That looks similar to the --info-script option, except that it would work for usual archives. That's not difficult to implement, but what would be the difference between `tar -zx -e script.sh -f file' and `tar -zx -f file && script.sh'? Regards, Sergey
