A lifehack for your shell (link in comments)

tl;dr Today, `unzip` comes to mind way faster than any unarchiving tool. Alias it to atool (and never think about it again). [https://xenodium.com/a-lifehack-for-your-shell](https://xenodium.com/a-lifehack-for-your-shell) update: there's also a bonus for `dired`.

Typing `Z` in dired will uncompress or compress the marked files. That's how I generally do it if I need to do it from inside Emacs.

Ah yeah Z `dired-do-compress` is pretty nice until attempting a less popular archive format (say .rar) and doesn't do the right thing. Also, being synchronous, it blocks Emacs for larger archives.

So if I'm getting this correct, this basically allows you to unarchive any archive type with one command? If so, I have the same functionality with a custom bash function. Something like this: ``` 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 ;; (*.deb) ar x $1 ;; (*.tar.xz) tar xf $1 ;; (*.tar.zst) unzstd $1 ;; ... ```

Yep. This works too. I had a similar function [https://github.com/xenodium/dotsies/commit/c939802f64e4d97800f350b5c88ce83e4da40bc1](https://github.com/xenodium/dotsies/commit/c939802f64e4d97800f350b5c88ce83e4da40bc1) but now delegating to atool instead.

I use https://github.com/mitsuhiko/unp for years

Ah nice. I only just learned about it recently in lobste.rs comments https://lobste.rs/s/qaimmg/lifehack_for_your_shell Added a “atool alternatives” section to https://xenodium.com/a-lifehack-for-your-shell