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On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:27:38 +0100, Ralph Smithen <ralphsmithen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >2009/6/19 Simon Williams <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> Hi all. >> >> Is there a 'universal unzip' tool for linux somewhere? So I can do >> 'uunzip foo.zip' or 'uunzip bar.tgz', etc, and it'll automatically work >> out which program to call to decompress it. >> >> I could knock up a script to do this in 30 seconds, but I have no idea >> what name to give it (uunzip is too clumsy to type)! And I was wondering >> if there was a more conventional way of doing this. I almost expect to >> find such a command on my system already. >> >> Any thoughts? >> Thanks. >> Simon > > >sudo apt-get install p7zip-full > >7z x <archive> > >any good? I was looking at using 7zip at work to replace our old pkzip programs ... but could use it to zip up things due to one major regression - there is no move option :-( and I have lots of scripts that go 'pkzip -m <foo>' But we are using it to unzip stuff Dave -- http://www.eclipse.co.uk/morgad/index.html DP: http://www.pgdp.net NTP: http://www.pool.ntp.org L&B: http://www.lynton-rail.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html