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+#!/bin/bash
+# there are two different ways this script can work.
+# for the first way, uncomment the two lines after the if and place two '.' in front of the /$1 
+#       this creates a new directory in the directory where the compressed file is and dumps the content in it
+# for the second way, comment the two lines under the if and place just one '.' in front of the /$1
+#       this just dumps the content of the compressed file in the same directory of the compressed file 
+if [ -f $1 ] ; then
+        NAME=${1%.*}
+        mkdir $NAME && cd $NAME
+        case $1 in
+          *.tar.bz2) tar xvjf ../$1 ;;
+          *.tar.gz) tar xvzf ../$1 ;;
+          *.tar.xz) tar xvJf ../$1 ;;
+          *.lzma) unlzma ../$1 ;;
+          *.bz2) bunzip2 ../$1 ;;
+          *.rar) unrar x -ad ../$1 ;;
+          *.gz) gunzip ../$1 ;;
+          *.tar) tar xvf ../$1 ;;
+          *.tbz2) tar xvjf ../$1 ;;
+          *.tgz) tar xvzf ../$1 ;;
+          *.zip) unzip ../$1 ;;
+          *.Z) uncompress ../$1 ;;
+          *.7z) 7z x ../$1 ;;
+          *.xz) unxz ../$1 ;;
+          *.exe) cabextract ../$1 ;;
+          *) echo "extract: '$1' - unknown archive method" ;;
+        esac
+else
+echo "$1 - file does not exist"
+    fi