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deco file extraction framework

deco is a command-line program that, together with the deco-archive package, allows you to extract dozens of popular archive file formats. It has a consistent interface ("deco 1.tar.bz2 2.rar 3.zip 4.flac 5.deb") and consistent behavior (never deleting archives after extraction and extracting relative to the current working directory, just verbosely enough, all unless explicitly requested otherwise). It creates an extraction directory if there is more than one file or directory at the archive top level, and it is able to fix strange permissions.

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  •  07 Jun 2010 21:45

    Release Notes: Deco is now compiled with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 so that files of 2 GiB or larger can be extracted on platforms that don’t enable large file support by default.

    •  12 Apr 2010 14:56

      Release Notes: Some obsolete code has been removed.

      •  16 Jan 2010 20:08

        Release Notes: A misleading error message (which probably nobody will ever have seen) has been corrected.

        •  29 Jan 2009 17:30

        Release Notes: The build system has been updated for BSD users having trouble compiling deco.

        •  18 Jan 2009 15:08

        Release Notes: The -k option has been removed, and its behavior is now the default, which should lead to a nicer work flow. Use the new -c ("clean") option to get the previous default of aborting extraction on error and deleting partial contents.

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        30 Sep 2008 08:09 ed_avis

        Re: See also
        Yes, I wrote one of them myself ;-).

        29 Sep 2008 07:58 phartlich

        Re: See also
        There are lots and lots (hartlich.com/deco/simi....

        29 Sep 2008 07:41 ed_avis

        See also
        Another tool that does the same thing is atool</
        a>.

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