How to extract any archive

Last updated at Wed, 25 Oct 2017 19:12:34 GMT

How to extract any archive in bash? This small snippet will help you. It takes care of spaces and hyphens in the archive name (and most solutions you find on the web are wrong in this matter).

extract () {
        case "$1" in
        *.ar)        ar x -- "$1" ;;
        *.tar)       tar xf "$1" ;;
        *.tar.bz2|*.tbz2)  tar xjf "$1" ;;
        *.tar.gz|*.tgz)  tar xzf "$1" ;;
        *.tar.xz)    tar xJf "$1" ;;
        *.rar)       unrar x -- "$1" ;;
        *.zip)       unzip ./"$1" ;;
        *.7z)        7z x -- "$1" ;;
        *.gz)        gunzip -- "$1" ;;
        *.bz2)       bunzip2 -- "$1" ;;
        *)           echo "unknow package '$1'" ;;
        esac
}