[kanchilug] Re: [Tip] UNP: Now extract any archives without any worries

  • From: Ramachandran V <v.ramcool.ramachandran@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: kanchilug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:40:12 +0530

Hi Suresh your tips are really awesome and also very useful.. you are
really doing a great job man.. keep going...



Regards
Ramachandran

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Tha.Suresh <jemenisuresh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> UNP: Now extract any archives without any worries
>
>
> Many of us may know how to extract a .Tar.gz file. But how many of us
> know how to extract a .bz2, .lz, etc files. Some extra option to tar
> will do the needfull, but we will need to know the options for each
> type of archive.
>
> But no worries any more. You can now use 'unp', a script that extract
> any type of archive by itself.
> To extract any archive just type:
>
> $ unp archive_file
> where "archive_file" can be a rar, zip, tar.gz, deb,
> tar.gz2, rpm or any other archive.
>
>
> The best thing is that you can use unp to extract multiple types of
> archives at the same time.
> example:
>
> $ unp *.tar *.tar.gz *.tar.bz2 *.rpm *.deb *.zip *.rar
>
> To extract all the archive files in the current directory:
>
> $ unp *
>
>
> Install unp
>
> $ sudo apt-get install unp
>
> --
> Regards,
> Tha.Suresh
>
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