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authorB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2020-07-05 21:51:38 -0400
committerB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2020-07-05 21:51:38 -0400
commite1011ac39bcda2ecf00173269d443037d5f74d93 (patch)
tree769712d59a157d0d3fb9d4d762b04ff153fd6a13 /deb2tarball
parentf4bb1ffe4cb5b5cfacca4fddbc4929e6a11ef9f2 (diff)
downloadmisc-scripts-e1011ac39bcda2ecf00173269d443037d5f74d93.tar.gz
Rename deb2tgz => deb2tarball
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+INPUT="$1"
+
+if [ -z "$INPUT" -o "$INPUT" = "--help" ]; then
+ echo "deb2tarball by B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>, WTFPL"
+ echo "Usage: `basename $0` filename.deb"
+ exit 0
+fi
+
+# used to always be data.tar.gz, newer debs might have data.tar.xz,
+# so we have to check. ar doesn't support wildcards like tar does, so
+# we can't just say "data.tar.*".
+
+DATA="$( ar t "$INPUT" 2>/dev/null | grep '^data\.tar\.' )"
+
+if [ -z "$DATA" ]; then
+ echo "Can't find any data.tar.* file(s) in the archive, invalid deb?" 2>&1
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+EXT="$( echo $DATA | cut -d. -f2- )"
+OUTPUT="`basename $1 .deb`".$EXT
+
+echo "$OUTPUT"
+ar p "$INPUT" "$DATA" > "$OUTPUT"