> If you have a mixture of text and binary files, I don't
> know what would happen to the binary files.
A long time ago I wrote a script to run on USS and unpax based on file
"extension".
It's kludgy I know, but it seemed to work:
# cat /usr/local/bin/ext
function usage
{
echo "Usage: `basename $0` [-v] archive"
echo " where 'archive' is a tar/pax file"
echo " -v - verbose mode"
echo ""
echo "Extract files from archive as text and re-extract binary files
with suffixes:"
echo ".ico .bmp .jpg .gif .Z .gz .tzg .class"
exit
}
paxFlags="-rf"
if [ $# -eq 0 -o $# -gt 2 ]; then
usage
elif [ $# = 2 ]; then
if [ $1 = "-v" ]; then
paxFlags="-rvf"
fi
shift
fi
# first extract with conversion
if [ "$paxFlags" = "-rvf" ]; then
echo "extracting with -o to=IBM-1047,from=ISO8859-1 flag ..."
echo "------------------------------------------------------"
fi
pax $paxFlags $1 -o to=IBM-1047,from=ISO8859-1
# capture the names of all binary files
binaryFiles=`pax -f $1 | awk
'/.ico$|.bmp$|.jpg$|.gif$|.Z$|.gz$|.tgz$|.class$/ {print $0}'`
# re-extract binary files with no conversion
if [ $binaryFiles ]; then
if [ "$paxFlags" = "-rvf" ]; then
echo "re-extracting the following in binary ..."
echo "-----------------------------------------"
echo "$binaryFiles"
fi
else
echo "No binary files found"
fi
pax -rf $1 $binaryFiles 2>/dev/null
You might modify it to go in the opposite direction.
-Mike MacIsaac, IBM mikemac at us.ibm.com (845) 433-7061
