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September 21, 2017 19:38
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Function to easily uncompress a variety of formats in Linux - add this to .bashrc. then run it on file (e.g. extract file.zip)
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# Extracting various compression files made easy | |
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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