On: Taking Pictures with a DRAM Chip

[cpach]

It’s so bad UX that we even need to worry one second about this when exploring downloaded archives. I’ve pondered writing a wrapper around tar/unzip/whatever that will automatically extract the archive to a suitable directory, even if there is none in the archive itself. Any day now…

[Spittie → cpach]

dtrx (Do The Right Extraction): http://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/

"Modern" gui usually provide this too - For example in KDE I have a nice "extract > extract here, autodetect subfolder" menu in Dolphin (the file manager)

[cpach → Spittie]

This is the kind of task I prefer to do in the terminal. dtrx looks good!

[Gracana → cpach]

I'm pretty sure the archive expander in Mac OS does this automatically, as does the one in Ubuntu.