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Hagai Buachi avatar Ubuntu

Reading file from Unzipped Folder - Linux

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Hagai Buachi

what i'm trying to do is reading files from 4 different Unzipped folders until now with no success, i wrote that script:

for file; do
local file_type=$( file -i "$file" )

case "$file_type" in
    *application/x-bzip2*)    echo "bzip2 file found";;
*application/gzip*)       echo "gzip file found";;
*application/zip*)        echo "zip file found";;
*application/x-xz*)       echo "xz file found";;
*application/x-compress*) echo "compressed file found";;
?)                        echo "${file} cannot be extarcted";;


esac

done

there is no Error, but also there is no output when i'm running it.

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cocomac
Why do you need to identify the different types of compression? It appears you may have [an XY Problem](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/66377). If you just need to extract them, do `tar xf filename`, and `tar` is smart enough to automatically determine the format and extract it properly, without you having to tell it what the format of the file is.
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steeldriver
How exactly are you running it? `for file; do` loops over a script's *positional parameters* - are you actually supplying any?
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Hagai Buachi
@cocomac i need to given a list of filenames (gunzip, bunzip2, unzip, uncompress) the tar xf filename also not doing anything.
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Hagai Buachi
@steeldriver can you explain this please?
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`tar xf filename` should certainly do something. Try running `tar xf filename` manually in a terminal, and see if it works. If not, then your `tar` is broken, and you should fix it. If it works there, then something is wrong with your script, perhaps what @steeldriver said. Also, run your script through [ShellCheck](https://www.shellcheck.net/). It will find any errors or mistakes that you missed.
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Hagai Buachi
@cocomac i ran it in ShellCheck and nothing's wrong, like i said above the tar also not responsing
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@HagaiBuachi if you ran **exactly what you posted** in shellcheck it should have told you that (1) it has no "shebang" to identify the shell and (2) that `local` is only valid in a function
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Hagai Buachi
@steeldriver so what should i do to fix it?
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