Command/function `extract` in your console

What’s a good way to extract: .zip, .rar, .bz2, .gz, .tar, .tbz2, .tgz, .Z, .7z, .xz, .exe, .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, .tar.xz, .arj, .cab, .chm, .deb, .dmg, .iso, .lzh, .msi, .rpm, .udf, .wim, .xar .cpio .cbr, .cbz, .cb7, .cbt, .cba, .apk, .zpaq, .arc, .ciso files on the Mac or Linux?

The goal is to make extract able to extract anything you give it. The command extract uses the free unpackers to support many older, obscure formats like this: .zip, .rar, .bz2, .gz, .tar, .tbz2, .tgz, .Z, .7z, .xz, .exe, .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, .tar.xz, .arj, .cab, .chm, .deb, .dmg, .iso, .lzh, .msi, .rpm, .udf, .wim, .xar .cpio, .cbr, .cbz, .cb7, .cbt, .cba, .apk, .zpaq, .arc, .ciso

How to install (macOS)

macOS / OSX / Mac OS X

Copy&Paste function into file ~/.bash_profile

Ubuntu / *nix

Copy&Paste function into file ~/.bashrc

I use hosting

My hosting here

How it use

Using command extract, in a terminal

$ extract <archive_filename.extention>

$ extract <archive_filename_1.extention> <archive_filename_2.extention> <archive_filename_3.extention> ...

Donation

I’ll continue to work and improve the script features regardless of the outcome of funding, because it's rewarding to see that people are using it and it does the job for them. Still I would appreciate your support in covering some of the expenses with the domain hosting and programming hours which are taken from my family time.

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