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[svn] Do some tests with a .tar.bz2 as well as a .tar.gz. I thought there were
some bugs with this that I found when using dtrx, but I can't reproduce
them this way, so I guess I'll have to investigate further. In the
meantime, they can't hurt.
19 | 1 | dtrx - Intelligent archive extraction |
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3 | |
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4 | Introduction |
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5 | ------------ |
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19 | 7 | dtrx extracts archives in a number of different formats; it currently |
8 | supports tar, zip, cpio, rpm, and deb. It can also decompress files | |
9 | compressed with gzip, bzip2, or compress. | |
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10 | |
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11 | In addition to providing one command to handle many different archive |
19 | 12 | types, dtrx also aids the user by extracting contents consistently. By |
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13 | default, everything will be written to a dedicated directory that's named |
19 | 14 | after the archive. dtrx will also change the permissions to ensure that the |
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15 | owner can read and write all those files. |
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19 | 17 | Running dtrx |
18 | ------------ | |
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19 | 20 | To run dtrx, simply call it with the archive(s) you wish to extract as |
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21 | arguments. For example:: |
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19 | 23 | dtrx coreutils-5.*.tar.gz |
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19 | 25 | dtrx supports a number of options to mandate specific behavior: |
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26 | |
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27 | -r, --recursive |
19 | 28 | With this option, dtrx will search inside the archives you specify to see |
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29 | if any of the contents are themselves archives, and extract those as |
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30 | well. |
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31 | |
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32 | -o, --overwrite |
19 | 33 | Normally, dtrx will avoid extracting into a directory that already exists, |
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34 | and instead try to find an alternative name to use. If this option is |
19 | 35 | listed, dtrx will use the default directory name no matter what. |
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36 | |
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37 | -f, --flat |
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38 | Extract archive contents into the current directory, instead of their |
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39 | own dedicated directory. This is handy if you have multiple archive |
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40 | files which all need to be extracted into the same directory structure. |
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41 | Note that existing files may be overwritten with this option. |
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19 | 43 | -l, -t, --list, --table |
44 | Don't extract the archives; just list their contents on standard output. | |
45 | ||
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46 | -q, --quiet |
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47 | Suppress warning messages. Listing this option twice will cause the |
19 | 48 | dtrx to be silent if at all possible. |
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49 | |
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50 | -v, --verbose |
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51 | Print more information about x's behavior. You can list this option up |
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52 | to three times for more information. |
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53 | |
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54 | --help |
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55 | Display basic help. |
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56 | |
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57 | --version |
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58 | Display x's version, copyright, and license information. |
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59 | |
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60 | Other Useful Information |
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61 | ------------------------ |
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19 | 63 | dtrx 4.0 is copyright (c) 2006, 2007 `Brett Smith`_. Feel free to send |
64 | comments, bug reports, patches, and so on. You can find the latest version | |
65 | of dtrx on `its home page`_. | |
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66 | |
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67 | .. _`Brett Smith`: mailto:brettcsmith@brettcsmith.org |
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68 | .. _`its home page`: http://www.brettcsmith.org/2006/x/ |
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19 | 70 | dtrx is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the |
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71 | terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software |
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72 | Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later |
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73 | version. |
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74 | |
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75 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT |
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76 | ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or |
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77 | FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for |
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78 | more details. |
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79 | |
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80 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along |
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81 | with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 |
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