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Extraction without group folder
Hi,
Thank you for all the hard work. Il was looking for a way to extract files without creating group folders.
Example : the cabinet file contains 2 groups : DATA and EXECUTABLE. If I extract both towards an INSTALL folder, DATA and EXECUTABLE folders are created. I would like to get the files directly in the INSTALL folder and skip the group folder creation.
Is that even possible ?
Thank you,
Greg
Thank you Greg for the kind words!
I don't have an obvious solution but maybe if you call it twice: once with -g DATA and once with -g EXECUTABLE?
Thank you for the quick answer !
I already tried it, the DATA and EXECUTABLE folders still get created in the INSTALL one. Even with -g DATA or -g EXECUTABLE. I thought maybe there is something else to do I didn't notice ?
Greg
If there is no directory structure, maybe -j will work? Otherwise I'm afraid you will have to relocate the files after extracting.
The reason for creating these directories, IIRC, is that sometimes files with the same name can exist in multiple groups or components.
Yes I understand, but I thought an option to disable it would be great ! I'll try to explain my goal : I'm making an installer for an old software that won't install anymore on recent computers (but still works). The setup file looks for the files on the CD-ROM to install it. Because of these files extracting to this "group" folder, I have to extract them to a temporary folder and then copy them again to the destination. Not optimal, but it works. Thanks again.
Yeah @gcxd68 that is a very typical use case, but I hope that moving the files to the right places (don't copy, that is much slower) with a script afterwards is not too much trouble.