[TUHS] Useful Unix tools + Usenix tapes

[Warren Toomey]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 01:08:19PM +1100, Nigel Williams wrote:
> Regarding these aggregates (tapes, zips, tars etc) can we consider the
> option please of having them unpacked into their tree structure so a
> search-engine can index the content?

Argh! I'm mindful of the disk space on my system and also on the
mirrors.

How about I write a script that unpacks and builds a table of contents
list for all the tarball and Zip files in the archive. It would run
regularly and leave a text file in the Archive root.

Cheers, Warren