dmerson
9/15/2016 - 11:37 PM

untarfile.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Thu Feb 20 06:59:20 2014
 
@author: Sukhbinder Singh
 
Tarfile test
 
"""
import tarfile,sys
 
def untar(fname):
    if (fname.endswith("tar.gz")):
        tar = tarfile.open(fname)
        tar.extractall()
        tar.close()
        print ("Extracted in Current Directory")
    else:
        print ("Not a tar.gz file: '%s '" % sys.argv[0])
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
        print ("Usage: '%s filename'" % sys.argv[0])
        sys.exit(0)
    untar(sys.argv[1])