Loop through ISO files and extract

SparrowHawk

Hi All,

I have approx 100 ISO files on a NAS that I want to extract into the same folder, once finished the extraction delete the iso file, and move onto the next folder/ file.

Is there any software that is available to do this? Or could some one assist in writing some code - can it be done in VBA?

Thanks in advance,

SH

yoyo

SparrowHawk wrote: »

Hi All,

I have approx 100 ISO files on a NAS that I want to extract into the same folder, once finished the extraction delete the iso file, and move onto the next folder/ file.

Is there any software that is available to do this? Or could some one assist in writing some code - can it be done in VBA?

Thanks in advance,

SH

Many archive programs (Winrar, 7zip etc.) support iso extraction, you may be able to find a command line version of these programs that would do this

Nick

rubadubduba

POWERISO
http://www.poweriso.com/download.htm
should help also.

Capt'n Midnight

interesting

7za does NOT support .iso

PrzemoF

What's you linux knowledge? That shouldn't be too hard...
Pseudo code (it's actually quite close to something that should work as a bash script):

for file in *.iso
mkdir $file.dir
mkdir f$ile.dirdest
mount -o loop -t iso9660 $file $file.dir
copy $file.dir to $file.dirdest
unmount $file.dir
rm $file
done

PrzemoF

A working bash script:

for i in `ls *.iso`
do
mkdir $i.dir
mkdir $i.dirdest
mount -o loop -t iso9660 $i $i.dir
cp -r $i.dir/ $i.dirdest/
umount $i.dir
rm $i
rmdir $i.dir
done


run with sudo

I'M TAKING NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR POTENTIAL DAMAGE CAUSED BY THIS SCRIPT, but it works for me. Depending on how the content of the isos is arranged (root dir files vs. no root dir files) you may want to change the destiantion in 'cp' command.

SickBoy

I had to extract a lot of large rar archives before. What I did was search for the files *.rar then highlight the results and right click and the context menu has an option, "extract all". This assumes you have winrar installed. The same procedure should work for a search for *.iso and extract all.

SparrowHawk

Hi All,

many thanks for your responses - very much appreciated. I neglected to say that I'm running a Win 7 system ( not to mention that my Linux knowledge extends to spelling the name!!).

@Sickboy - I'm actually in the process of trying this as you posted - my issue is that I'm stuck for space, so cannot afford to have all the ISO files and extracted files, exist at the same time - which is where the need to delete the ISO before progressing to the next file arises.

I'll post back with success or fail!

Again, thanks to all

bonzodog2

Do you need to have them all extracted? Why not just mount the ISO as a virtual drive with something like PowerISO?

SparrowHawk

@bonzodog2 - when I created the ISOs some of the settings are causing issues when I try to play on my media player - easiest way for me is just to extract the files.

SickBoy - I have an "Extract Here" option which just causes all the folders to be extracted to the one location :-(

yoyo

SparrowHawk wrote: »

@bonzodog2 - when I created the ISOs some of the settings are causing issues when I try to play on my media player - easiest way for me is just to extract the files.

SickBoy - I have an "Extract Here" option which just causes all the folders to be extracted to the one location :-(

Try the WinRAR "Extract each archive to a seporate folder" option. Winrar may create a folder based on the file name in this instance

Nick

SickBoy

SparrowHawk wrote: »

SickBoy - I have an "Extract Here" option which just causes all the folders to be extracted to the one location :-(

There should be an option for "Extract Files" also. This option will give you the choice of location where you want the file to be extracted to.

If space is an issue then maybe batch the job into 5 - 10 ISOs at a time and once you can confirm that the files have been extracted as expected then delete the ISOs and move on to the next batch, rinse & repeat as necessary.

bonzodog2

It would be quicker to add the drive as a slave drive inside a PC, then you are not reading the ISO and writing the contents back and forth across the network. Failing that, attach via USB.

SparrowHawk

Success!!

I used "Extract Files" with the option selected to delete archives after extraction - all going according to plan :-D

Thank you to all for your help and advice,

SH