From f5c7014231090048cb1eabb984562c8e3ea27e15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Parker <parkervcp@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2019 22:34:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] add file unpacker

This is to unpack files.
---
 scripts/file_unpacker.sh | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 scripts/file_unpacker.sh

diff --git a/scripts/file_unpacker.sh b/scripts/file_unpacker.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..42cb8bcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/file_unpacker.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+## only needs to have the file with a file passed into it to get the filetype.
+## only supports tar.gz/xz and zip currently for unpacking.
+## The value for ${DOWNLOAD_LINK##*/} is 
+
+FILETYPE=$(file -F ',' ${DOWNLOAD_LINK##*/} | cut -d',' -f2 | cut -d' ' -f2)
+if [ "$FILETYPE" == "gzip" ]; then
+    tar xzvf ${DOWNLOAD_LINK##*/}
+elif [ "$FILETYPE" == "Zip" ]; then
+    unzip ${DOWNLOAD_LINK##*/}
+elif [ "$FILETYPE" == "XZ" ]; then
+    tar xvf ${DOWNLOAD_LINK##*/}
+else
+    echo -e "unknown filetype. Exeting"
+    exit 2 
+fi
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