Bash - "Uncompress" a file from a variety of common formats

# @param String $filename must be a common compressed file type like ZIP or Tar # function extract() { if [ -f $1 ]; then case $1 in *.tar.bz2) tar xjf $1 ;; *.tar.gz) tar xzf $1 ;; *.bz2) bunzip2 $1 ;; *.rar) rar 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 ;; esac else echo "File not found: '$1'" fi }