Problem
You have ZIP archive and want to convert it to TAR automatically conserving the original directory structure.
Solution
Use this script (comments inline).
#!/bin/bash # Usage: ziptotar.sh <ZIP name> tmpdir=`mktemp -d` #Copy the zip to the temporary directory cp "$1" $tmpdir/ #Unzip (cd $tmpdir && unzip -q "$1") #Remove the original zipfile because we don't want that to be tar'd rm "$tmpdir/$1" #Tar the files outfilename=$(echo "$1" | rev | cut -d. -f2- | rev).tar (cd $tmpdir && tar cf "$outfilename" *) mv "$tmpdir/$outfilename" . #Remove the temporary directory rm -rf $tmpdir #Print what we did echo "Converted $1 to $outfilename"