This bash script is created to unpack zipfile from blackboard. Blackboard has a horrible way of creating a zipfile. This tries to fix it by creating a directory for every submit in a designated directory. Read the following section to learn how to download such a horrible zipfile.
This bash script is used to unpack the zipfile blackboard generates when you download all the files in the "full grade center" -> Assignment Download File -> select all students -> download zipfile. Use help functionality to guide you to use this bash script.
The following output is generated when you call the script with -h.
Help documentation for bb_extract.
Basic usage: bb_extract gradebook.zip
Command line switches are optional. The following switches are recognized.
-d --Set output directory. /tmp/bb_cleaned.
-h --Displays this help message. No further functions are performed.
Example: bb_extract -d assignment1 gradebook.zip
Clone this repo into your ~/.config directory and add it to your the path into
your $PATH env variable for maximum convenience.
This guy helped me in making the bashscript useable for other people: http://tuxtweaks.com/2014/05/bash-getopts/
You'll notice that some of the code is directly copied, but also altered to fit my needs.