Figure out how unar should handle directories.

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Should unar always extract archives to new folders, like The Unarchiver? Or 
should it extract 
directly, like regular unarchiver tools? Or should there be an option to choose 
the behaviour, and if 
so, which should be default?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by paracel...@gmail.com on 10 May 2010 at 6:42

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Ultra-powerful heuristic suggestion: "Make a new directory if you'd dump a lot 
[more
than three? More than one?] file in this directory."

That should be overridable both ways, of course.

Original comment by Lore...@gmail.com on 10 May 2010 at 7:08

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The Unarchiver goes by the "if more than one" rule, with an override for 
"Always". It does not have a "don't create 
a folder" option and renames files to avoid conflicts, so it does not need to 
ever ask the user if he wants to 
overwrite.

I'm not sure if that approach is correct for a command-line too, though.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 11 May 2010 at 12:14

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Issue 332 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 8 Apr 2011 at 8:43

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Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 6 Aug 2011 at 1:41

• Changed state: Fixed