Comments on: Extract all Archive File Format With Just One Command in Linux

By: spsneo

spsneo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:41:53 +0000

@Marc

Thanks for your hint.
I will update the blog accordingly.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:14:01 +0000

>> This function doesn’t work with files have space in its name

The solution is very simple: just put double-quotes around every appearance of “$1″, e.g.
if [ -f "$1" ] ; then
case “$1″ in
*.tar.bz2) tar xjf “$1″ ;;

… and so on

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:53:44 +0000

Also google for “unball” script. Provides similar functionality as long as you have the proper decompression program installed.

By: hemanth

hemanth — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:09:07 +0000

I made the changes for the script to work for file names with spaces , i tired its working fine here , hope its bugs free.

#!/bin/bash
extract()
{
SAVEIFS=$IFS
IFS=$(echo -en “\n\b”)
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 ;;
*) echo “‘$1? cannot be extracted via extract ()”;;
esac
else
echo “‘$1? is not a valid file”
fi
IFS=$SAVEIFS
}

By: Geoserv

Geoserv — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:02:42 +0000

Wow, thanks for compiling and sharing.

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Extract all Archive File Format With Just One Command in Linux…

Extracting archived files easily using linux….