https://github.com/mitsuhiko/unbox

A work in progress command line utility to unpack various types of archives quickly.
https://github.com/mitsuhiko/unbox

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A work in progress command line utility to unpack various types of archives quickly.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/unbox
• Owner: mitsuhiko
• Created: 2018-12-26T01:11:36.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-01-02T08:43:52.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-20T09:05:47.369Z (14 days ago)
• Language: Rust
• Homepage:
• Size: 295 KB
• Stars: 142
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 9
• Open Issues: 3
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  • Readme: README.md

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# unbox

A work in progress command line utility to unpack various types of archives quickly.

```

unbox /path/to/my/archive.zip

```



## Installation

```

cargo install unbox

```

## Supported Formats

- unix ar archives

- microsoft cabinet

- portable executable containing microsoft cabinet

- zip archives

- uncompressed tarballs

- gzip-compressed tarballs

- xz-compressed tarballs

- bzip2-compressed tarballs

- gzip-compressed files

- xz-compressed files

- bzip2-compressed files

Note on cabinet files: this uses the [cab](https://crates.io/crates/cab) Rust library which

currently only supports deflate cabs.  This means it's unable to extract cabs which use

the LZX or Quantum compression formats.

## FAQ

**Why do this?**

> No specific reason.  I used to have a Python tool called [unp](https://github.com/mitsuhiko/unp)

> which just shells out to system tools to unpack and I felt like I want to see if I can use the

> rust ecosystem to build one that comes with the unpacking code.

**How fast is it?**

> It's not particularly fast.  In fact it's about 50% slower than the system tools but for most

> archives I unpack that does not cause me any grief.