better deb extraction

diff --git a/ex b/ex
index 0ef26c45c5a9d7dc50d6852986bb7091f7e60d59..cf04ee6f2f26e93d3ac5ec30b5030a39e7b55611 100755 (executable)
--- a/ex
+++ b/ex
@@ -38,10 +38,15 @@ Note: dtrx (package & command) extracts most of these plus some others."
             *.bz2 ) bunzip2 "$x" ;;
             *.deb )
               ar x "$x"
-              tar Jxf data.tar.xz
+              tmp=(data.tar.*)
+              case $tmp in
+                *.xz) tar xJf data.tar.xz ;;
+                *.gz) tar xzf data.tar.gz ;;
+                *) echo "error: could not find data.tar.*" >&2; exit 1 ;;
+              esac
               tar xzf control.tar.gz
               rm -f control.tar.gz
-              rm -f data.tar.xz
+              rm -f data.tar.*
               ;;
             *.dsc) dpkg-source -x "$x" ;;
             *.gz ) gunzip  "$x" ;;