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Comment by jetpm | Hacker News Reader

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I always wanted this, typing paths is so annoying. I think the command line got stuck in the last millennium. So much things could be automated there, especially command completion. Why do I have to remember the stupid -xfv parameters for tar or whatever. Computers should be like magic.

What could be improved: if I type "nano <ctrl f> index." I see some index.js files but not my index.html file from my node project.

Ah ok it's in a different folder, but it would be cool if it showed anyways.

Just add this to your .[bash/zsh]rc:

  ex ()
  {
    if [ -f $1 ] ; then
        case $1 in
            *.tar.bz2) tar xjf $1 ;;
            *.tar.gz) tar xzf $1 ;;
            *.bz2) bunzip2 $1 ;;
            *.rar) unrar 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 ;;
            *) echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via ex()" ;;
       esac
    else
        echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
    fi
}

>Why do I have to remember the stupid -xfv parameters for tar or whatever.

A quite popular handy tool for that: http://www.nongnu.org/atool/

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