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+title: "Extract All the Things"
+date: 2020-06-14T22:23:37-04:00
+draft: false
+tags: []
+---
+
+[Sandra Henry-Stocker](https://www.networkworld.com/author/Sandra-Henry_Stocker/) from Network World wrote a [great post](https://www.networkworld.com/article/3244007/extracting-from-compressed-files-on-linux.html) on how to standardize extracting files on Linux. It's a shell script that works so well, that I placed it in my [`~/.local/bin` directory](https://brandonrozek.com/blog/customexec/) in order to call upon it at any time. Here's part of it, check out the post for more.
+
+```bash
+#!/bin/bash
+if [ -f $1 ] ; then
+  case $1 in
+    *.tar.bz2)  tar xjf $1   ;;
+    *.tar.gz)   tar xzf $1   ;;
+    *.tar.xz)   tar zxvf $1  ;;
+    *.bz2)      bunzip2 $1   ;;
+    *.rar)      rar x $1     ;;
+    *.gz)       gunzip $1    ;;
+    *.tar)      tar xf $1    ;;
+    *.tbz2)     tar xjf $1   ;;
+    *.tgz)      tar xzf $1   ;;
+    *.xz)       xz -d $1     ;;
+    *.zip)      unzip $1     ;;
+    *.Z)        uncompress $1;;
+    *)          echo "contents of '$1' cannot be extracted" ;;
+  esac
+else
+  echo "'$1' is not recognized as a compressed file"
+fi
+```
+