There are so many compression utilities available and so many compressed file types and each one has a different app to extract that particular compressed file. So i was wondering if there was an application for the terminal which would automatically find out the compressed file type and call upon the required app to decompress it. for example

<the all file decompressor> <compressed file name> <location to decompress>

this could also be a shell script , but i personally dont have enough experience with bash to write such a script.
Now people could ask me to use thing like ark, but i want a commandline tool.

Hrm, if you wanted a script, you could do something like, awk -F. { $ll } or whatever the last item in an awk expression is, I'd have to look it up. Then it would be a giant case statement as it went through all the possibles for decom.

However, there are really only a few out there that are used with any frequency. zip, Z ( usually solaris ), gz, and bz. You use unzip, uncompress ( usually solaris ), gunzip and bunzip. You'll get the occasionaly rar , but there's also tar, I do not like green eggs and ham.

Anyway, not that big of a deal, from my perspective.

well i think i might learn awk or bash to program this thing. if no one has done this sorta a thing earlier. this might be one step closer to making linus user friendly in the CLI. lol