Linux Command Line Decompression Tips

2010-10-07 170 words One minute

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Everyone finds it frustrating that Linux has numerous compression formats, and each format corresponds to different commands, which is quite a headache.
Let me introduce a method to you:
Add this to your bashrc:

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ex () {  
if [ -f $1 ] ; then  
case $1 in  
*.tar.bz2) tar xjf $1 ;;  
*.tar.gz) tar xzf $1 ;;  
*.bz2) bunzip2 $1 ;;  
*.rar) rar x $1 ;;  
*.gz) gunzip $1 ;;  
*.tar) tar xf $1 ;;  
*.tbz2) tar xjf $1 ;;  
*.tgz) tar xzf $1 ;;  
*.zip) unzip $1 ;;  
*.Z) uncompress $1 ;;  
*.7z) 7z x $1 ;;  
*) echo "Unable to extract '$1' file!!" ;;  
esac  
else  
echo "'$1' is not a valid file!"  
fi  
}  

To decompress files, simply type “ex [compressed file]”. If you have other compressed file formats, you can add them yourself.

Say goodbye to annoying various decompression commands from now on.

Original link: http://www.cppblog.com/xguru/archive/2010/10/07/128952.html