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Created July 11, 2014 08:11
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
url="$1"
wget -q "$url"
tarfile=${url##*/} # strip off the part before the last slash
dtrx "$tarfile"
dir=${tarfile%%.*} # strip off everything after the first dot
cd "$dir"
ls
# TODO: stay in $dir after the script ends
# TODO: handle dtrx interaction
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arne-cl commented Jul 11, 2014

It seems, bash can't change a directory from within a script (b/c scripts are run in a subshell):

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arne-cl commented Jul 22, 2014

dtrx was written in Python, so we could turn this into a proper script!

http://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/
hg clone http://www.brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/dtrx

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