Allow extraction to existing folders

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by locating the pget extraction path used by the -x option and the check that reports "destination / already exists"; the issue names no files or tests. Done means extraction can target an existing directory such as /, while the existing download-and-extract behavior continues to work.

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Description

I was using pget to download a tarball and extract to the root of my container / with the following command:

pget "https://storage.googleapis.com/xxx/xxx/xxx.tar.gz" / -x

I receive the following error message:

Error: destination / already exists

Would the pget team be amenable to me making the change that allows extraction to already existing directories? I currently I work around this by doing the following:

pget "https://storage.googleapis.com/xxx/xxx/xxx.tar.gz" "/tmp/usrfile.tar.gz"
tar xf "/tmp/usrfile.tar.gz" -C /
rm "/tmp/usrfile.tar.gz"
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