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A simple bash script to extract the most common archive types
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#!/bin/bash | |
if [ -z "$1" ]; then | |
echo "No file name was specified." | |
exit | |
elif ! [ -z "$2" ]; then | |
echo "Usage: extract.sh <filename>" | |
exit | |
elif ! [ -f "$1" ]; then | |
echo "This file does not exist." | |
exit | |
fi | |
if [[ $1 =~ ^.*\.(zip)$ ]]; then | |
unzip "$1" | |
elif [[ $1 =~ ^.*\.(rar)$ ]]; then | |
rar x "$1" | |
elif [[ $1 =~ ^.*\.(tar|tgz|tar.gz|txz|tar.xz|tar.bz2)$ ]]; then | |
tar -xf "$1" | |
else | |
echo "The specified file has an unrecognized file extension." | |
fi |
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