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#!/usr/bin/perl 
# Script stolen from one of Roderich Schupp's mails to the PAR
# mailing list. He attributes this to:

# code stolen from PAR script/parl.pl

use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Spec::Functions;
use File::Basename;
use File::Path;

@ARGV <= 2 or die <<"...";
Usage: $0 par-packed-executable [directory]

List (or extract) the "embedded files" (cf. PAR::Tutorial) in
an executable packed by PAR::Packer. If an optional directory is specified,
the embedded files are extracted into it, using their original file names.
...

my ($exe, $extract) = @ARGV;

open my $fh, '<', $exe or die qq[failed to open "$exe": $!];
binmode $fh;

# search for the "\nPAR.pm\n" signature backward from the end of the file
my $buf;
my $size = -s $exe;
my $offset = 512;
my $idx = -1;
while (1)
{
    $offset = $size if $offset > $size;
    seek $fh, -$offset, 2 or die qq[seek failed on "$exe": $!];
    my $nread = read $fh, $buf, $offset;
    die qq[read failed on "$exe": $!] unless $nread == $offset;
    $idx = rindex($buf, "\nPAR.pm\n");
    last if $idx >= 0 || $offset == $size || $offset > 128 * 1024;
    $offset *= 2;
}
die qq[no PAR signature found in "$exe"] unless $idx >= 0;

# seek 4 bytes backward from the signature to get the offset of the 
# first embedded FILE, then seek to it
$offset -= $idx - 4;
seek $fh, -$offset, 2;
read $fh, $buf, 4;
seek $fh, -$offset - unpack("N", $buf), 2;
printf STDERR qq[embedded files in "%s" start at offset %d\n], $exe, tell($fh);

read $fh, $buf, 4;
while ($buf eq "FILE") 
{
    read $fh, $buf, 4;
    read $fh, $buf, unpack("N", $buf);

    (my $fullname = $buf) =~ s|^([a-f\d]{8})/||;        # strip CRC
    print $fullname, "\n";

    read $fh, $buf, 4;
    read $fh, $buf, unpack("N", $buf);

    if ($extract)
    {
        my $file = catdir($extract, split(/\//, $fullname));
        my $dir = dirname($file);
        mkpath($dir) unless -d $dir;

        open my $out, '>:raw', $file or die qq[failed to open "$file": $!];
        print $out $buf;
        close $out;
        print STDERR qq[... extracted to $file\n];
    }

    read $fh, $buf, 4;
}

close $fh;

exit(0);