simple-extract 0.1.3

A small command line utility to help extract compressed archives.

simple_extract

Simple File Extraction

Description

A small command line file extraction utility written in Python. It uses external tools to optionally fetch from a url and decompress archives.

Getting started

Python 3.6+ needed. Tested with 3.9

External tools that can be used:

* tar
* gzip
* bzip2
* unrar
* lha
* 7z
* unzip
* rpm2cpio
* cpio
* ar
* xz
* zstd
* curl
* wget
* fetch

Installing

* clone the git repository from https://github.com/berrym/simple_extract.git
or:
* python -m pip install simple-extract
or:
* python -m pip install --user simple-extract

Executing program

* python simple_extract.py some-archive.tar.gz some-other-archive.lzma
or if installed via pip:
* simple-extract some-archize.bz2

Authors

Copyright 2021 Michael Berry [e-mail]

Version History

• 0.1.0
  • Initial Release
• 0.1.1
  • Change the way paths are handled if stdout is used
• 0.1.2
  • Updated setup.py
• 0.1.3
  • Fixed setup.py issue preventing proper builds

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.