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Unzip ISO file
Posted: July 15th, 2012, 10:48 am
by mark1979smith
Would it be possible to unzip an ISO file automatically, possible as an option?
Thanks
Mark
Re: Unzip ISO file
Posted: July 15th, 2012, 10:58 am
by sander
An ISO image is uncompressed (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_image ) and can thus not be unzipped.
Maybe you mean mounting or opening the ISO-file? If your OS (you did not specify which OS you use: Linux, Unix, OSX, Windows, ...) has a command line tool to mount/open a ISO image, you could write a script that does the ISO image mounting / opening.
Re: Unzip ISO file
Posted: July 15th, 2012, 11:09 am
by mark1979smith
Hi,
Thanks for the quick reply.
Sorry for the confusion, I use 7-zip to extract the files out of an iso and thought it would be nice if that step could be done automatically. Although I do understand not everyone would want ISO's extracted.
Not sure what my OS is as it's installed on a Synology Diskstation DS410j.
Mark
Re: Unzip ISO file
Posted: July 15th, 2012, 11:19 am
by sander
7-zip can extra an ISO image? Cool!
You're Synology probably runs some Unix. First step to create a script, is to find the command line to extract the ISO-image on your Synology. So: can you login (SSH) on the Synology? If so, can you create the command line?
Wait: 7-zip ... that's on your Synology, right?
Re: Unzip ISO file
Posted: July 15th, 2012, 11:24 am
by mark1979smith
Hi,
Yeah, I love 7-zip
I can log on to the diskstation through SSH. I get "BusyBox v1.16.1 (2012-05-10 02:27:56 CST) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands." when I log in.
7-zip is not on the diskstation, I extract it through Windows on my PC (hence the reason for this request) as it constantly downloading and uploading at 10MB. Obviously it would be quicker done without the network restrictions.
Mark
Re: Unzip ISO file
Posted: July 15th, 2012, 11:31 am
by sander
OK. So with Synology-commands. But first: do you want to create a script?
EDIT:
My Ubuntu Linux has "7z". With
I'm able to extract an ISO file.
So:
- thanks for the 7z / ISO tip
- does your Synology have 7z installed or installable?
Re: Unzip ISO file
Posted: July 15th, 2012, 11:49 am
by mark1979smith
OMG!!
It works, it turns out 7-zip is installed and works as simply as that!
Now, I assume I need to create a script which scans the folders for an ISO folder and if it's found execute that command.
As an overhead point of view, I don't want to scan all the folders in the download directory for an ISO image, is it possible to just scan the current download folder?
Mark
Re: Unzip ISO file
Posted: July 15th, 2012, 12:52 pm
by sander
Cool.
Read
http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/user-scripts for some info on scripts.
Have you ever used a post-processing script? You should first get an existing script working.
The ISO extract script could be something like
That will extract an *.iso and *.ISO in the download directory, but not in subdirectories. If you want to scan sub-dirs too, add "7x */*.iso" etc.
You can always run this script, as it won't do any harm when there is no ISO. ;-)
HTH
Re: Unzip ISO file
Posted: July 15th, 2012, 1:30 pm
by mark1979smith
Thanks for the info.
I haven't created any scripts in the past. It's not clear what type of file to create, is it a plain text file (extract_iso.txt) or does it need to have a particular extension (such as .sh)
Many Thanks
Mark
Re: Unzip ISO file
Posted: July 15th, 2012, 1:37 pm
by sander
It's best to create a script named "7z-iso-extract.sh", with these contents:
Then you have to set the x-bit on the script:
After that you can test the script from the Synology command line. For example:
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/home/synology/7z-iso-extract.sh /home/synology/Downloads/complete/MyDownload1
Of course this is an example; you have to change to your directories ...
Re: Unzip ISO file
Posted: July 15th, 2012, 1:47 pm
by sander
Update: tested on my Ubunut Linux:
Script (EDITed):
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#!/bin/sh
cd "$1"
mkdir unpack
cd unpack
# pwd
7z x ../*.iso
7z x ../*.ISO
7z x ../*/*.iso
7z x ../*/*.ISO
Command:
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/home/sander/scripts-voor-SAB/7z-iso-extract.sh "/home/sander/Downloads/complete/Ubuntu 11_04 desktop amd64 Natty Narwhal amd64/"
Tested from the command line ... and it works. Please note: still no SABnzbd involved! Just everything from the command line.
Next step:
I'm now testing it from SABnzbd with an actual ISO download.
EDIT: after some improvements, the scripts works great.
So ... there you go!
Re: Unzip ISO file
Posted: July 15th, 2012, 3:01 pm
by exussum
how about
$ find / -maxdepth 3 -iname '*.iso' -exec 7z x {\}\ \;
Should work as well - change the maxdepth to however far you want to go
Re: Unzip ISO file
Posted: July 15th, 2012, 3:17 pm
by mark1979smith
Thanks very much for all the assistance.
Mark
Re: Unzip ISO file
Posted: July 15th, 2012, 4:02 pm
by sander
mark1979smith wrote:Thanks very much for all the assistance.
Mark
Everything OK? Or are you overwhelmed by this information?
Re: Unzip ISO file
Posted: July 16th, 2012, 1:32 am
by mark1979smith
sander wrote:mark1979smith wrote:Thanks very much for all the assistance.
Mark
Everything OK? Or are you overwhelmed by this information?
Yes, everything is fine. It's working 100%.
My only bugbear is that I have select 'extract_iso.sh' from the scripts dropdown list for each download. Is there a way around this?