archivefuncs.sh File Reference

RetroPie archivefuncs library. More...

Functions
	archiveExtract (src_file, disk_exts)
	Extracts an archive to a temporary directory. More...
	archiveCleanup ()
	Purges archive temp directory from previous calls to archiveExtract.

Detailed Description

RetroPie archivefuncs library.

Copyright

GPLv3

Function Documentation

archiveExtract()

archiveExtract	(	src_file	,
		disk_exts
	)

Extracts an archive to a temporary directory.

Parameters

src_file	Full path to archive file to extract
disk_exts	Space separated list of supported disk extensions (e.g. ".d64 .t64")

After calling this the variable arch_dir will contain the directory that was used for extraction. Also the variable arch_files will contain an array of filenames that are considered as game disks according to parameter disk_exts.