#!/bin/bash

# credit: http://nparikh.org/notes/zshrc.txt
# Usage: smartextract <file>
# Description: extracts archived files / mounts disk images
# Note: .dmg/hdiutil is Mac OS X-specific.

if [ -f $1 ]; then
    case $1 in
        *.tar.bz2)  tar -jxvf $1                        ;;
        *.tar.gz)   tar -zxvf $1                        ;;
        *.bz2)      bunzip2 $1                          ;;
        *.dmg)      hdiutil mount $1                    ;;
        *.gz)       gunzip $1                           ;;
        *.tar)      tar -xvf $1                         ;;
        *.tbz2)     tar -jxvf $1                        ;;
        *.tgz)      tar -zxvf $1                        ;;
        *.zip)      unzip $1                            ;;
        *.ZIP)      unzip $1                            ;;
        *.pax)      cat $1 | pax -r                     ;;
        *.pax.Z)    uncompress $1 --stdout | pax -r     ;;
        *.Z)        uncompress $1                       ;;
        *)          echo "'$1' cannot be extracted/mounted via smartextract()" ;;
    esac
else
    echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
fi