unzip (zip, tar, tag.gz) files with ruby

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Published on 2009-05-13T09:05:29Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 18:43 UTC
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I want do unzip a lot of zip files, is there a module or script that check which format the zip file is and decompress it? this should work on linux, other OSs I don't care for this.

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