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Created October 30, 2012 00:07
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extract
extract () {
if [ -f $1 ] ; then
case $1 in
*.tar.bz2) tar xvjf $1 ;;
*.tar.gz) tar xvzf $1 ;;
*.bz2) bunzip2 $1 ;;
*.rar) rar 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 "don't know how to extract '$1'..." ;;
esac
else
echo "'$1' is not a valid file!"
fi
}
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ghostbar commented Mar 4, 2013

You should add a conditional for rar. In linux you have unrar and unrar-free, so you configure an alias rar -> unrar|unrar-free or is gonna throw you an error. :-)

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@ghostbar unar or unar-free when is installed, create a alias 'unrar' , <==tested on Debian

the script require a little update

replace $1 by "$1"

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