Adding a destination to extract?

[erichelgeson]

I'm doing some automation with the cp2 cli but I'm either missing it in the docs or it doesn't exist - the ability to set a destination location for the extract command, eg:

Source /foo/bar/some.img
Destination /fizz/buzz/contents

If I do

cd /foo/bar/
cp2 extract --preserve=adf --recurse some.img
# Extracts to cwd(/foo/bar/), so I have to 
mkdir -p /fizz/buzz/contents
cd /fizz/buzz/contents
cp2 extract --preserve=adf --recurse /foo/bar/some.img

Ideally I could pass in a path for the destination of the extract, eg:
cp2 extract --preserve=adf --recurse /foo/bar/some.img /fizz/buzz/contents

Easy enough to work around, though it'd be a nice feature to possibly add.

[fadden]

Looking at some other file archivers, unzip has a -d exdir option that does what you describe, and 7z has -o{Directory}, but tar/unrar seem to lack the option. So there's certainly precedent for it. The easiest way to implement it would be to set the current directory to the argument before doing anything.

FWIW, built-in commands like pushd/popd exist to make it easy to change location temporarily. You can also run commands in a sub-shell to avoid changing the shell's cwd, e.g. (cd /fizz/buzz/contents ; cp2 x -pa /foo/bar/some.img).

[fadden]

https://github.com/fadden/CiderPress2/releases/tag/v1.0.7-dev3 adds an --exdir=<path> option for the "extract" and "export" commands.