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~/.bashrc tar extracting made easy
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| # found here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1116012 | |
| extract () { | |
| if [ -f $1 ] ; then | |
| case $1 in | |
| *.tar.bz2) tar xvjf $1 && cd $(basename "$1" .tar.bz2) ;; | |
| *.tar.gz) tar xvzf $1 && cd $(basename "$1" .tar.gz) ;; | |
| *.tar.xz) tar Jxvf $1 && cd $(basename "$1" .tar.xz) ;; | |
| *.bz2) bunzip2 $1 && cd $(basename "$1" /bz2) ;; | |
| *.rar) unrar x $1 && cd $(basename "$1" .rar) ;; | |
| *.gz) gunzip $1 && cd $(basename "$1" .gz) ;; | |
| *.tar) tar xvf $1 && cd $(basename "$1" .tar) ;; | |
| *.tbz2) tar xvjf $1 && cd $(basename "$1" .tbz2) ;; | |
| *.tgz) tar xvzf $1 && cd $(basename "$1" .tgz) ;; | |
| *.zip) unzip $1 && cd $(basename "$1" .zip) ;; | |
| *.Z) uncompress $1 && cd $(basename "$1" .Z) ;; | |
| *.7z) 7z x $1 && cd $(basename "$1" .7z) ;; | |
| *) echo "don't know how to extract '$1'..." ;; | |
| esac | |
| else | |
| echo "'$1' is not a valid file!" | |
| fi | |
| } |
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