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Alias for compressing files

Published in: Bash 

URL: http://bashscripts.org/viewtopic.php?t=231

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  1. compress () { 
  2.    FILE=$1 
  3.    case $FILE in 
  4.       *.tar.bz2) shift && tar cjf $FILE $* ;; 
  5.       *.tar.gz) shift && tar czf $FILE $* ;; 
  6.       *.tgz) shift && tar czf $FILE $* ;; 
  7.       *.zip) shift && zip $FILE $* ;; 
  8.       *.rar) shift && rar $FILE $* ;; 
  9.    esac

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