funtionzsh

First of all I'd like to apologize for the recent inactivity. I promise that I'll keep updating this blog as often as time allows.

Now, here is a simple function for extracting archives depending on their file type.

I did not write this function myself and all credit goes to Vincent, Milomouse.

# extract archive with preferred options:

function extr {

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 ;;

*.xz) unxz -vk $1 ;;

*.lzma) unlzma -vk $1 ;;

*) print "'$1' cannot be extracted via extr()" ;;

esac

else

print "'$1' is not a valid file"

fi

}

Add the following to your .zshrc to be able to use the function:

(Don't forget to replace '.zsh' and 'funcs' with your own dir/filename)

# source external configuration files:

ZDOTDIR="${HOME}/.zsh"

for i in ${ZDOTDIR}/funcs; do

. $i || { print "$i: cannnot source file" }

done

All done! Whenever you wish to extract an archive just type "extr /path/to/archive" without the quotes ofcourse.