file-extractor-1

#!/bin/bash

# This will let you strip all the paths from a tar archive and extract the files to any arbitrary directory.
# Becase it uses a file redirection it looses timestamps, ownership, and permissions.
# It works with files and/or directories that have spaces in the names.

# $1 = tar file
# $2 = output directory (if unset it defaults to .)

file-extractor() {
    tar -atf "${1}" | awk -F/ '{if ($NF) print $NF}' | while read file; do
        tar --no-anchored -O -axf "${1}" "${file}" > "${2:-.}"/"${file}";
    done
}

file-extractor "${1}" "${2}";

# Example:
# nbritton@lab01:~/build/perccli$ ./file-extractor perccli_linux_NF8G9_A07_7.529.00.tar.gz ./build
# nbritton@lab01:~/build/perccli$ ll ./build/
# total 18800
# drwx------ 2 nbritton nbritton       91 Sep 28 19:09 ./
# drwxrwxr-x 3 nbritton nbritton      271 Sep 28 19:09 ../
# -rw-rw-r-- 1 nbritton nbritton     1809 Sep 28 19:09 license.txt
# -rw-rw-r-- 1 nbritton nbritton  5442712 Sep 28 19:09 perccli-007.0529.0000.0000-1.noarch.rpm
# -rw-rw-r-- 1 nbritton nbritton 13800928 Sep 28 19:09 perccli.efi