Extract tarballs

This is a little tool to unpack a folder full of tarballs. The reason I created this instead of using the tar tool available on almost every platform, was because I wanted to extract all of the tarballs in the directory at once, and I was not sure how to do that without scripting it. And to ensure cross platform compatibility, I wrote this in Python instead of bash.

Usage

NOTE: This was only tested on Python v3.8.2.

Copy the script to the location containing the tarballs and run through the terminal.

To get usage help:

python extract_tarballs.py --help

And to run it:

python extract_tarballs.py <tarball_location> <extraction_destination>

NOTE: In the current implementation, you only have to specify the relative file location for either tarball_location or extraction_destination, but this is relative to the location of the extract_tarballs.py script. For example, using python extract_tarballs.py . dest would take the tarball location to be the directory containing the script and would assume dest is directory within that too. Therefore, ensure the script extract_tarballs.py is copied to the correct location before used.