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Story: Extracting Different File Types On Linux And Unix - Guest PostTotal Replies: 1
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Sander_Marechal

Jan 19, 2009
2:52 PM EST 		File type recognition by file extension is evil. There are muc better ways. Besides that, there already exist a universal commandline unpacker that does exactly what this script tries to do, but then properly: "unp".

Just `aptitude install unp` and then `unp your.archive.file`. The unp program can automatically use any and all unpackers that you have on your system (unrar, unzip, gunzip, untar, etcetera, etcetera).
jezuch

Jan 19, 2009
3:36 PM EST 		There's also apack (recentry featured in the Package of the Day).

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