dtrx

Tough crowd. fwiw, `tar xzf foobar.tgz` = "_x_tract _z_e _f_iles!" has been burned into my brain. It's "extract the files" spoken in a Dr. Strangelove German accent Better still, I recently discovered `dtrx` (https://github.com/dtrx-py/dtrx) and it's great if you have the ability to install it on the host. It calls the right commands and also always extracts into a subdir, so no more tar-bombs. If you want to create a tar, I'm sorry but you're on your own.

When these tools come up, I like to post my little list of similar tools, for those interested. Apparently it's a hobby of mine: * fq - like jq for binary data: https://github.com/wader/fq * Kaitai Struct - https://kaitai.io/ * visualizer, for the above: https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_visualizer/ * HexFiend - a hex editor, but with "binary templates" feature : https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend * binary templates, for the above: https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend/blob/master/templates/T... * binspector - https://github.com/binspector/binspector * binary-parsing - a collection of links to similar such tools : https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing * unblob - https://github.com/onekey-sec/unblob * ImHex - https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex * GNU Poke - https://www.gnu.org/software/poke/ * dtrx - https://github.com/dtrx-py/dtr

Since a few years I only use dtrx. https://github.com/dtrx-py/dtrx/ I never have to learn this kind of stuff anymore.

For years and years I've used `dtrx` ("do the right extraction") (https://github.com/dtrx-py/dtrx/). Maybe I should switch to unblob? It looks like unblob has the right behavior by default that I have to alias for `dtrx`: alias dtrx='dtrx --one=inside' But I'll probably want to create an alias for unblob to change default depth to 1.