From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:24:35 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: New script to extract a given file from a .deb.
X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/git?p=bin.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=5118ead297776033ecda28447ee262e902ac1b3c

New script to extract a given file from a .deb.
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diff --git a/deb-extract-file b/deb-extract-file
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..47c879b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deb-extract-file
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+set -e
+
+deb="$1"
+file=".${2#.}"	# force leading .
+dpkg --fsys-tarfile "$deb" | tar xOf - "$file"