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		jenscow on Jan 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Unblob – extraction suite for 30+ file fo... `tar -xf example.tar -C temp-dir && mv temp-dir/* $(echo temp-dir/* \| sed -r 's,.*/([^/]+)-[0-9.]+,./\1,')`

amelius on Jan 19, 2023 [–]

Yeah, exactly the kind of command-line that I would like to avoid ;)

nerdponx on Jan 19, 2023 | [–]

Among other things, it's a shame that there's no dedicated standard-ish CLI tool for manipulating pathnames.

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