From f0fb727480e27b66697b300d4046e8148b5623aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Kelling <iank@fsf.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 20:08:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] better deb extraction

---
 ex | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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" ;;
-- 
2.30.2