I need a little help with bash or sh [solved]

[re4ps2]

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if $1 | grep zip; then unzip; fi
if $1 | grep rar; then "unrar e"; fi

The code does not work. Please help me fix it. Thanks.

[Genone]

Would help if you'd say what exactly you're trying to do ...

[Sadako]

You might wanna explain exactly what it is you're trying to do first (we're not mindreaders you know ), but at a guess;

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case "$1" in
    *.zip )
        unzip "$1" ;;
    *.rar )
        unrar e "$1" ;;
esac

You might wanna take a look at the "unfoo" script, which does exactly this, and for other file types too.

It's in portage, if you use gentoo...

[Veldrin]

A quick google turned up this....

basically this make it work...

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if [[ $1 == *zip ]]
  then unzip $1
elif [[ $1 == *rar ]]
  then rar e $1
fi

just my .02$
V.