Bash example shell script: expanding compressed files

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Bash example shell script for decompressing compressed files

Supported compression formats are tar, gzip, bzip2, and zip.

#!/bin/sh

# Bash multi compression format expander 1.0
# Author: Douglas Palovick
# License: GPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

for FILE in "$@" ; do 
    FILE2=$FILE; #Just for safe keeping
    
    if [[ $FILE = *.tar.gz || $FILE = *.tgz ]];  
    then 
        echo "untarring and ungzipping $FILE2"; `echo /bin/tar -zxvf $FILE2`;

    elif [[ $FILE = *.zip ]];
    then
         echo "unzipping $FILE2"; `echo /usr/bin/unzip $FILE2`;
    elif [[ $FILE = *.tar.bz2 ]];
    then
        echo "untar and unbzipping $FILE2"; `echo /bin/tar -jxvf $FILE2`;
    else 
        echo "no $FILE2"; 
    fi
 
done