Simple Script to Mount Disk Image Partitions Looped on Linux

Every so often I have to recover a drive to a disk image on Linux, and before I transfer the data back to a physical drive, I like to mount the disk image check on it's status. Mounting a partition from a disk image is slightly more complicated than mounting just an image of a partition, so I thought I'd post a shortcut to doing so. This information was derived from the how-to posted here (http://madduck.net/blog/2006.10.20:loop-mounting-partitions-from-a-disk-image/). You will need to alter three variables: DISKIMAGE, DISKPARTITION, and the mount path at the end of command.

DISKIMAGE=/media/usbdisk/mydiskimage.img ; DISKPARTITON=2 ; mount -o loop,offset=$((`fdisk -lu $DISKIMAGE 2> /dev/null | grep -P "$DISKPARTITON\s+\**\s+[0-9]+\s+[0-9]+\s+[0-9]+\s+[0-9]+" | sed 's/\*//g' | awk '{print $2}'` * `fdisk -lu $DISKIMAGE 2> /dev/null | grep "^Units" | awk -F"= " '{print $3}' | awk '{print $1}'`)) $DISKIMAGE /media/recovereddisk/

Hope this helps someone else save some time!