CABEXTRACTSection: User Commands (1)Updated: August 2, 2001 |
NAME
cabextract - program to extract files from Microsoft cabinet (.cab) archivesSYNOPSIS
cabextract [-v] [-h] [-l] [-q] [-L] [-f] [-ddir] cabinet files ...DESCRIPTION
cabextract is a program that un-archives files in the Microsoft cabinet file format (.cab) or any binary file which contains an embedded cabinet file (frequently found in .exe files).cabextract will extract all files from all cabinet files specified on the command line
To extract a multi-part cabinet consisting of several files, only give the first file as an argument to cabextract as it will automatically look for the remaining files.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.- -v
- If given alone on the command line, prints the version of cabextract and exits. Given with a list of cabinet files, it will list the contents of the cabinet files.
- -h
- Prints a page of help and exits.
- -l
- Lists the contents of the given cabinet files, rather than extracting them.
- -q
- When extracting cabinet files, supresses all messages except errors and warnings.
- -L
- When extracting cabinet files, makes each extracted file's name lowercase.
- -f
- When extracting cabinet files, will ignore corrupted MSZIP blocks. A warning will be printed if a corrupted MSZIP block is encountered.
- -d dir
- Extracts all files into the directory dir .
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Stuart Caie <kyzer@4u.net>, based on the one written by Eric Sharkey <sharkey@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.