ex() accepts now multiple files

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/zsh/.zsh_prog b/zsh/.zsh_prog
index 51f63f5..9f9e801 100644
--- a/zsh/.zsh_prog
+++ b/zsh/.zsh_prog
@@ -1,25 +1,29 @@
-ex ()
-{
-  if [ -f $1 ] ; then
-	case $1 in
-		*.tar.bz2)   tar xjf $1   ;;  
-		*.tar.gz)    tar xzf $1   ;;  
-		*.bz2)       bunzip2 $1   ;;  
-		*.rar)       unrar x $1   ;;  
-		*.gz)        gunzip $1    ;;  
-		*.tar)       tar xf $1    ;;  
-		*.tbz2)      tar xjf $1   ;;  
-		*.tgz)       tar xzf $1   ;;  
-		*.zip)       unzip $1     ;;  
-		*.Z)         uncompress $1;;
-		*.7z)        7z x $1      ;;  
-		*)           echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via ex()" ;;
-	esac
-  else
-	echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
-  fi  
-}
-
 calc(){
 	echo "scale=3;$@" | bc -l
 }
+
+ex () {
+
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+	if [ -f "$1" ] ; then
+		case "$1" in
+			*.tar.bz2)   tar xjf "$1"   ;;
+			*.tar.gz)    tar xzf "$1"   ;;
+			*.bz2)       bunzip2 "$1"   ;;
+			*.rar)       unrar x "$1"   ;;
+			*.gz)        gunzip "$1"    ;;
+			*.tar)       tar xf "$1"    ;;
+			*.tbz2)      tar xjf "$1"   ;;
+			*.tgz)       tar xzf "$1"   ;;
+			*.zip)       unzip "$1"     ;;
+			*.Z)         uncompress "$1";;
+			*.7z)        7z x "$1"      ;;
+			*)           echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via ex()" ;;
+		esac
+	else
+		echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
+	fi
+	# shift through the arguments
+	shift
+done
+}