You might enjoy replacing your extract function with atool (https://www.nongnu.org/atool/ https://www.nongnu.org/atool/) which provides aunpack. It works simila

You might enjoy replacing your extract function with atool (https://www.nongnu.org/atool/ https://www.nongnu.org/atool/) which provides aunpack. It works similarly, but has niceties like creating and unpacking into a subdirectory to avoid accidentally spraying files all over the current working directory if the archive has multiple files at its root.