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atool

Manage archives of various formats. More information: https://www.nongnu.org/atool/.
  • List files in a zip archive:
    atool --list {{path/to/archive.zip}}
  • Unpack a tar.gz archive into a new subdirectory (or current directory if it contains only one file):
    atool --extract {{path/to/archive.tar.gz}}
  • Create a new 7zip archive with two files:
    atool --add {{path/to/archive.7z}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}
  • Extract all zip and rar archives in the current directory:
    atool --each --extract {{*.zip *.rar}}

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