simple-extract
Simple File Extraction
Description
A small command line file extraction utility written in Python. It uses external tools to optionally fetch from an url and decompress many types of archives.
Getting started
Python >= 3.12 needed
External tools that can be used:
targzipbzip2unrarlha7zunziprpm2cpiocpioarxzzstdcurlwgetfetch
Installing
Manual local install
$ clone the git repository from https://github.com/berrym/simple_extract.git
$ python3 -m venv .venv
$ source .venv/bin/acivate
$ python3 -m build
$ pip3 install .
Package installation Recommended
$ python3 -m pip install simple-extract # if you have permissions
or
$ python3 -m pip install --user simple-extract # will store in user's local directories
or Recommended install method
$ pipx install simple-extract # will install to a venv and install an executable link
Executing program
$ /path/to/venv/bin/simple-extract # if cloned and manually built but no longer in the venv.
or if installed via pip, pipx
$ simple-extract https://github.com/ibara/mg/releases/download/mg-6.8.1/mg-6.8.1.tar.gz
Tip
If you have a shell environment that supports aliases, it's useful to alias simple-extract.
On common unix/linux shells you might run or put this in your shell rc script.
$ alias se='simple-extract'
Then you can execute the program by typing se
Authors
Copyright 2025 Michael Berry trismegustis@gmail.com
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
1 maintainer
Release files for simple-extract 0.3.4
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