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Unix/Linux program that can handle all popular compression/archiving formats (e.g.tar, gzip, bzip2, zip)?

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I sometimes get confused by the varying command line options I need to run common Unix archiving and compression software (e.g. gzip, bzip2, zip, tar). Is there a program out there that can just Do What I Mean for common cases? For example:

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program --compress --gzip foobar
program --extract foobar.tar.bz2
program --extract foo.zip

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As example 7z. Where - add files to archive, - Set type of archive (7z, zip, gzip, bzip2 or tar), - extract files from archive. More information .

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Unix/Linux program that can handle all popular compression/archiving formats (e.g.tar, gzip, bzip2, zip)?

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