Sunday, May 1, 2011

How to easily extract everything from Unix/Linux Shell

I dont know where i found this part of gold :D But its amazing and makes using your Shell on Desktop or Server much more easy.

Just add the following to your ~/.bashrc file:


extract () {
    if [ -f $1 ] ; then
        case $1 in
            *.tar.bz2)   tar xvjf $1        ;;
            *.tar.gz)    tar xvzf $1     ;;
            *.bz2)       bunzip2 $1       ;;
            *.rar)       unrar x $1     ;;
            *.gz)        gunzip $1     ;;
            *.tar)       tar xvf $1        ;;
            *.tbz2)      tar xvjf $1      ;;
            *.tgz)       tar xvzf $1       ;;
            *.zip)       unzip $1     ;;
            *.Z)         uncompress $1  ;;
            *.7z)        7z x $1    ;;
            *)           echo "'$1' cannot be extracted" ;;

        esac

    else

        echo "'$1' is not a valid file"

    fi

}

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