Upload a tarball to a Rackspace Cloud Files container and extract its contents.

curl_cf_extract_archive.sh

#!/bin/bash
# SEE: http://docs.rackspace.com/files/api/v1/cf-devguide/content/Extract_Archive-d1e2338.html
# NOTE: That "Content-Type: " _must_ be blank if you want the API to guess the types!
token=`./curl_authenticate.sh |grep ^X-Auth-Token |cut -d: -f2`
tarball=/home/champ/tmp/test_cf_extract.tar.gz
container=tmp
region=dfw
curl -i -XPUT \
    -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" \
    -H "Content-Type: " \
    https://storage101.${region}1.clouddrive.com/v1/MossoCloudFS_ffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffff/${container}/?extract-archive=tar.gz \
    --data-binary @$tarball