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February 18, 2017 11:44
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Shell (BASH/ZSH) function for extracting an archive
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# dnf install --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm | |
# dnf install unrar cabextract p7zip-plugins ncompress xz-lzma-compat | |
extract() { | |
if [ -z "$1" ]; then | |
# display usage if no parameters given | |
echo "Usage: extract <path/file_name>.<zip|rar|bz2|gz|tar|tbz2|tgz|Z|7z|xz|ex|tar.bz2|tar.gz|tar.xz>" | |
echo " extract <path/file_name_1.ext> [path/file_name_2.ext] [path/file_name_3.ext]" | |
return 1 | |
else | |
for n in $@ | |
do | |
if [ -f "$n" ] ; then | |
case "${n%,}" in | |
*.tar.bz2|*.tar.gz|*.tar.xz|*.tbz2|*.tgz|*.txz|*.tar) | |
tar xvf "$n" ;; | |
*.lzma) unlzma ./"$n" ;; | |
*.bz2) bunzip2 ./"$n" ;; | |
*.rar) unrar x -ad ./"$n" ;; | |
*.gz) gunzip ./"$n" ;; | |
*.zip) unzip ./"$n" ;; | |
*.z) uncompress ./"$n" ;; | |
*.7z|*.arj|*.cab|*.chm|*.deb|*.dmg|*.iso|*.lzh|*.msi|*.rpm|*.udf|*.wim|*.xar) | |
7z x ./"$n" ;; | |
*.xz) unxz ./"$n" ;; | |
*.exe) cabextract ./"$n" ;; | |
*) | |
echo "extract: '$n' - unknown archive method" | |
return 1 | |
;; | |
esac | |
else | |
echo "'$n' - file does not exist" | |
return 1 | |
fi | |
done | |
fi | |
} |
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