From: Ian Kelling <iank@fsf.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:08:17 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: better deb extraction
X-Git-Url: https://iankelling.org/git/?p=small-misc-bash;a=commitdiff_plain;h=f0fb727480e27b66697b300d4046e8148b5623aa;hp=7494ae4746d84ba3d28a84b995190e2ca2fd04e5

better deb extraction
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diff --git a/ex b/ex
index 0ef26c4..cf04ee6 100755
--- 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" ;;