All of us might have faced a situation at some point of time or the other while using Linux tar.gz, tar.bz2, tbz commands. So many archive types, so many commands to remember??? Well, not any-more, thanks to dtrx tool.
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What is Dtrx?
Dtrx stands for ???Do The Right Extraction???, it’s an open source and very effective command-line application for *nix systems that simplify your job of archive extraction easier.
The dtrx command is an replacement of ???tar -zxvf??? or ???tar -xjf??? commands and it provides a one single command to extract archives in a number of different formats including tar, zip, rpm, deb, gem, 7z, cpio, rar and many more. It can also used to decompress files compressed with bzip2, gzip etc.