patool is a free and open source, simple manager for file archives of various types. Various archive types can be created, extracted, tested and listed by patool.
The advantage of patool is its simplicity in handling archive files without having to remember a myriad of programs and options.
The archive format is determined by the file and as a fallback by the archive file extension. patool supports 7z (.7z), ACE (.ace), ALZIP (.alz), AR (.a), ARC (.arc), ARJ (.arj), BZIP2 (.bz2), CAB (.cab), compress (.Z), CPIO (.cpio), DEB (.deb), GZIP (.gz), LRZIP (.lrz), LZH (.lha, .lzh), LZIP (.lz), LZMA (.lzma), LZOP (.lzo), RPM (.rpm), RAR (.rar), TAR (.tar), XZ (.xz), and ZIP (.zip, .jar) formats.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Fix command argument order when extracting cpio archives.
· Added correct cpio MIME type on Debian systems.
· Added support for the clzip and pdlzip programs who are both capable
· of handling LZIP (.lz) archives.
· Added support for the orange program which is capable of extracting
· CAB (.cab) archives.
· Added support for DMS (.dms) files with the xdms program.
· Support ZIP (.zip) file creation with the 7z and 7za programs.
· Improved MIME type detection for compressed TAR archives.
· Fix needed archive programs for several test cases, including
· test_repack and test_mime.