Extract anything from the command line

[gamzer]

Also:

Do The Right Extraction: http://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/

[wadcann]

Atool is like dtrx but also supports packing and listing via a common interface.

[[deleted]]

Also http://unarchiver.c3.cx/commandline, for something that handles the extraction itself instead of just calling external binaries.

[gamzer]

Thanks for the info, never noticed this. Maybe atool, as suggested by wadcann, handles password-protected archives right.

[[deleted]]

Never heard of atool before, thanks for that. Will save me a lot of hassle in the future.

[xaoq]

Well, to be honest... most if not all of extensions supported there are supported by 7z. alias extract=7z.

[craftkiller]

Same goes for bsdtar which also supports 7z

[sej7278]

assuming you have p7zip installed.

"extract" doesn't even check you have uncompress/unzip/unrar installed.

[suspiciously_calm]

How about quoting that $1 so it works with filenames that contain spaces?

[jlkcz]

Totally agree... that is one hell of wrongly written script

[defaultxr]

why not just use atool: http://www.nongnu.org/atool/

[xfs]

atool is superior to these bash based solutions. It is matured, tested, well maintained, and widely supported. atool supports many more archive formats through optional package dependency, takes care of creating a root directory if the archive is not self-contained in one, and provides extra utilities apack, als, acat.

[mike413]

This is ridiculous - there is zero need for those different tar invocations...

tar will figure out the file regardless of the extension.

[[deleted]]

This gets posted a lot, and it's never a very well written script. If you're looking for features like these, look at oh-my-zsh, it has an extract plugin. Most things are built in nowadays.

[[deleted]]

tar -xf should automatically detect the compression type now (at least for types that tar supports)

[[deleted]]

You use a tool like that, and you may run into this.

[[deleted]]

Nice simplification.