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I always wanted this, typing paths is so annoying. I think the command line got stuck in the last millennium. So much things could be automated there, especiall

• iokanuon 11y ago
  >Why do I have to remember the stupid -xfv parameters for tar or whatever. A quite popular handy tool for that: http://www.nongnu.org/atool/ http://www.nongnu.org/atool/
• quantumtremor 11y ago
  Just add this to your .[bash/zsh]rc: ex () { if [ -f $1 ] ; then case $1 in *.tar.bz2) tar xjf $1 ;; *.tar.gz) tar xzf $1 ;; *.bz2) bunzip2 $1 ;; *.rar) unrar 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 "'$1' cannot be extracted via ex()" ;; esac else echo "'$1' is not a valid file" fi }