Idea #5696: Easily extract files with 'untar'

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Written by wladston the 25 Mar 08 at 16:37. Category: System.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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So the user could type

$untar filename.tar.gz
or
$untar filename.tar

And the archive would be extracted, similar to the unzip command, so tne beginner user doesn't have to look up for 'tar -zxvf' every time.

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vexorian wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 19:39

Can't the beginner just use right click\extract ?

ebrahim wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 21:34

If user is not a shell user, he doesn't need this.
If user is a shell user, he knows how to extract tar archives with 'tar'!

ebrahim wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 21:37

BTW, if you need it do this (untested and no warranty!):
$ sudo tee /usr/local/bin/untar
#!/bin/sh
tar xf "$@"
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/untar

sedra wrote on the 26 Mar 08 at 11:51

right click and extract

Endperform wrote on the 26 Mar 08 at 16:41

in .bashrc:

alias untar="tar -xvf"

Done.

wladston wrote on the 26 Mar 08 at 16:49

@ vexorian , @ebrahim, @sedra
I'm talking about the beginner shell user. If we can simplify and still obtain the same control and power, why not ?

@Endperform, @ebrahim
Would this script be able to extract both .tar, .tar.bz, .tar.bz2 and .tar.gz files ?

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