how to uncompress an archive based on the file command

Question

Im new to bash scripting, and I want to write a script called unpack, something like this:

unpack [-r] [-v] file [file...]
-v - verbose
-r - recursive - will traverse contents of folders recursively, performing unpack on each.

I need to determine what kind of compression was used and perform unpacking for those compression types.

Assuming file names and extensions could have no meaning - the only way to know what method to use is through the file command. I have 4 unpacking options gunzip, bunzip2, unzip, uncompress

so I wrote a function called execute_unpacking

#!/bin/bash

exectute_unpacking(){

    for FILE in "${@}"
    do
        local FILE_TYPE=$(file "${FILE}")

        # How to get the compression type of the file?

        case "${FILE_TYPE}" in
            *bzip2) bunzip2 ${RECURSIVE} "${FILE}" ;;
            *gzip) gunzip ${RECURSIVE} "${FILE}" ;;
            *Zip) unzip ${RECURSIVE} ${FILE} ;;
            *compress) uncomprees ${RECURSIVE} ${FILE} ;;
            ?) echo "${FILE} cannot be extarcted" ;;
        esac

    done
}

So based on the $(file ${FILE}) i need to check for Zip, bzip2, compress, gzip

Is this the correct way to do it? (i don't want to use external tools like dtrx )

For example if I have 4 files:

$(file -i archive) => archive: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
$(file -i archive.bz2) => archive.bz2: application/x-bzip2; charset=binary
$(file -i archvive.gz) =>archive.gz: application/x-gzip; charset=binary
$(file -i archive.cmpr) => archive.cmpr: application/x-compress; charset=binary

So i need to assign to the FILE_TYPE variable 4 options gzip,compress,bzip2,txt and then match those pattern accordingly inside of my case statement

When I tried to ./unpack.sh archive.zip Nothing happened unfortantelly.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Answer 1

Try:

local file_type=$(file -b "${FILE}" | awk '{print $1}')

You can then test for XZ, gzip, etc or whatever it produces.

Answer 2

Just use libarchive bsdtar, which can extract most archive formats (tar, tgz, zip, isos...) by itself:

bsdtar -xf "$any_archive"

(see also additional options such as p/o/S to handle permissions, ownership, sparseness where relevant).

Or libarchive's bsdcat to uncompress most compression formats (gz, xz, bz2)

bsdcat -- "$compressed_file" > "$uncompressed_file"

Note that zip is an archive format, not (only) a compression format. zip archives will typically contain more than one member. bsdcat would just concatenate them. Use bsdtar instead to extract them.