A small command line utility to help extract compressed archives.
Project description
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 archives.
Getting started
Python 3.9+ needed
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 https://github.com/ibara/mg/releases/download/mg-6.8.1/mg-6.8.1.tar.gz
Authors
Copyright 2021 Michael Berry trismegustis@gmail.com
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
- 0.1.4
- Added a simple noclobber option for non piped commands
- 0.1.5
- Added a command line switch to silence archive downloads
- 0.1.6
- Stop splitting text at common extensions
- 0.1.7
- Split archive paths only at valid extensions
- 0.1.8
- Changed imports, check for local archive existence in should_fetch archive
- 0.1.9
- Improved url validation and error handling
- 0.2.0
- Use subprocess.run instead of Popen and check for errors
- 0.2.1
- Use a dictionary command mapping instead of if else control flow
- 0.2.2
- Removed glob_multiple_extensions, deprecated
- 0.2.3
- Refactored main()
- 0.2.4
- Added logging
- 0.2.5
- New control switch --force_download bypasses should_fetch_url() check
- 0.2.6
- Fixed a crash when fetching an url and content length is invalid
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
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