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Created April 23, 2013 22:14
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extract () {
if [ -f $1 ]
then
case $1 in
(*.tar.bz2) tar -jxvf $1 ;;
(*.tar.gz) tar -zxvf $1 ;;
(*.bz2) bzip2 -d $1 ;;
(*.gz) gunzip -d $1 ;;
(*.tar) tar -xvf $1 ;;
(*.tgz) tar -zxvf $1 ;;
(*.zip) unzip $1 ;;
(*.Z) uncompress $1 ;;
(*.rar) unrar x $1 ;;
(*) echo "'$1' Error. Please go away" ;;
esac
else
echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
fi
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