Bash script to extract rootfs from Raspbian images

rpi_copyrootfs.sh

#!/bin/bash

PATH=/sbin:${PATH}

set -e

usage()
{
cat <<EOF

  `basename $0`:

     Make a Raspberry Pi SD card image

       -h         : This help message                                                                                           
       -d         : Destination directory                                                                                       
       -i         : The name of the image file ( `basename ${IMGFILE}` )
       -v         : Turn on verbose output
EOF
}

while getopts “hi:d:v” OPTION
do
     case $OPTION in
         h)
	     HELP_OPT=1
             ;;
         i)
             IMAGEFILE_OPT=$OPTARG
             ;;
	 d)
	     DESTDIR_OPT=$OPTARG
	     ;;
         v)
             VERBOSE=1
             ;;
         ?)
             usage
             exit
             ;;
     esac
done

IMGFILE=${IMAGEFILE_OPT:-2012-09-18-wheezy-raspbian.img}
DESTDIR=${DESTDIR_OPT:-rootfs}

if [ ! -z "${HELP_OPT:-}" ] ; then
    usage
    exit
fi

if [[ ${EUID} != 0 && ${UID} != 0 ]] ; then
    echo "$0 must be run as root"
    usage
    exit -1
fi

BYTES_PER_SECTOR=`fdisk -lu ${IMGFILE} | grep ^Units | awk '{print $8}'`
LINUX_START_SECTOR=`fdisk -lu ${IMGFILE} | grep ^${IMGFILE}2 | awk '{print $2}'`
LINUX_OFFSET=`expr ${LINUX_START_SECTOR} \* ${BYTES_PER_SECTOR}`

if [ ! -z "${DESTDIR}" ] ; then

    if [ ! -d ${DESTDIR} ] ; then
	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}
    fi
    LINUXMOUNT="__linuxmnt.$$"
    mkdir -p ${LINUXMOUNT}
    mount -o loop,offset=${LINUX_OFFSET} ${IMGFILE} ${LINUXMOUNT}
    cd ${LINUXMOUNT};
    tar cf - * | ( cd ../${DESTDIR}; tar xvf - )
    cd -
    umount ${LINUXMOUNT}
    rm -rf ${LINUXMOUNT}
fi

Stolen from https://midnightyell.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/compiling-mame-for-the-raspberry-pi-with-qemu/ and updated
Usage:
sudo ./rpi_copyrootfs.sh -i 2020-08-20-raspios-buster-armhf.img -d rootfs

If you are on a non English system just prefix with LANG=C to make it work since the script parses english output of fdisk.

LANG=C sudo ./rpi_copyrootfs.sh -i 2020-08-20-raspios-buster-armhf.img -d rootfs