I'm trying to learn to use the shell and I have this script that I have seen
posted in several different places, and I want to put in my .bashrc.

However, I get the following error: line 11: syntax error near unexpected
token
line 11: syntax error "function extract()

I don't know enough yet to spot what's wrong.

Can anyone help?

Here's the script.

function extract() # Handy Extract Program.

{

if [ -f $1 ] ; then

case $1 in

*.tar.bz2) tar xvjf $1 ;;

*.tar.gz) tar xvzf $1 ;;

*.bz2) bunzip2 $1 ;;

*.rar) unrar x $1 ;;

*.gz) gunzip $1 ;;

*.tar) tar xvf $1 ;;

*.tbz2) tar xvjf $1 ;;

*.tgz) tar xvzf $1 ;;

*.zip) unzip $1 ;;

*.Z) uncompress $1 ;;

*.7z) 7z x $1 ;;

*) echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via >extract<" ;;

esac

else

echo "'$1' is not a valid file"

fi

}