Pipe Find Results for '*.squashfs' to unsquashfs

Question

I am looking for something that will find the squashed filesystem, and the pass the output to unsquash the fs and it would have to be an absolute path outside the squashfs.

example

/tmp/mnt/live/filesystem.squashfs

desired output

/tmp/unsquashedfs/files

I am fooling with lines of code like

find /tmp/mnt -iname '*.squashfs' -exec unsqaushfs '*.squashfs' {} \;

find /tmp/mnt -print0 -iname "*.squashfs" | unsquashfs "*.squashfs" -T -

But can't get it to work. Any help from somebody would be appreciated!

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 20 '15 at 22:20

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You're basically looking for

find /tmp/mnt -iname '*.squashfs' -exec unsquashfs {} \;

{} is replaced by the path to the matched file.

If you want to specify which directory to extract to, pass the -d option.

find /tmp/mnt -iname '*.squashfs' -exec unsquashfs -d /tmp/unsquashedfs/files {} \;

edited Sep 20 '15 at 22:20

don_crissti

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answered Sep 20 '15 at 21:46

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

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Ohh ! See I kept getting the error, ".squashfs" is not found, but I was passing it like this -exec unsquashfs ".squashfs" {} ;, I guess I didn't need to redo that part! Thanks It makes my script cleaner! – FreeSoftwareServers Sep 21 '15 at 00:43
I never understood the {} ; ... I just copy and pasted, thanks for explaining your answer, not just giving it, as it helps me (understand) with future problems. – FreeSoftwareServers Sep 21 '15 at 00:55
I started a seperate thread for a related question What is the difference when using FIND between -name and -iname If you are feeling ambitious, please answer, its more for scholarly reasons as my script already works great! – FreeSoftwareServers Sep 21 '15 at 01:01

FreeSoftwareServers · Answer 2 · 2015-09-21T00:54:52.293

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So I figured i was working backwards, and this has worked for me

sudo find . -type f \( -name '*.squashfs' -o -name "*.SQFS" \) -exec cp {}  /tmp/fs.squashfs  \; && sudo unsquashfs /tmp/fs.squashfs

What I finally ended with thanks to users help! (I needed ability to search for different parameters and be able to add more in future)

find /tmp/mnt \( -iname '*.squashfs' -o -iname "*.SQFS" \) -exec unsquashfs -d /tmp/squashfs-root/ {} \;

edited Sep 21 '15 at 00:54

answered Sep 20 '15 at 03:34

FreeSoftwareServers

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Wouldn't mind seeing the correct answer for passing it to find if anybody knows, i think its an issue with the wildcard, not sure tho – FreeSoftwareServers Sep 20 '15 at 03:34
Just finished up my guide on Customizing Live ISO's namely CloneZilla and Parted Magic – FreeSoftwareServers Sep 20 '15 at 06:16

Pipe Find Results for '*.squashfs' to unsquashfs

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