An OS X app to extract pets

[mavrothal]

I'm using Macs quite often (OK, is not Linux but is BSD ) and some times I want to extract a pet to look at it, usually through the terminal tar command.
That's too much for a mac user ( ) so I made a tittle "pet_extractor" app to do that. Attached below (for other the "macpy" hybrids around here )

If you rather make your own app, open "Script Editor", paste this script:

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tell application "Finder" to set theSel to selection as text
if theSel is "" then display dialog "Nothing selected" buttons {"Cancel"} default button 1
open theSel

on open theSel
	set thePet to POSIX path of theSel
	set theFol to POSIX path of (do shell script "dirname " & thePet)
	set isPet to (do shell script "echo " & thePet & "|rev|cut -c 1-3|rev")
	if isPet is not "pet" then display dialog "This is not a pet file" buttons {"Cancel"} default button 1
	do shell script "tar -xf " & thePet & " -C " & theFol
end open

and "File -> Export..." it as an application.
Put it in your applications folder and instruct the OS to use it (from the "Get Info -> Open with:" of a pet file )