CABEXTRACT

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 20, 2003
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NAME

cabextract - program to extract files from Microsoft cabinet (.cab) archives

SYNOPSIS

cabextract [-ddir] [-f] [-Fpattern] [-h] [-l] [-L] [-p] [-q] [-s] [-v] 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 the first cabinet file needs to be given as an argument to cabextract as it will automatically look for the remaining files. To prevent cabextract from extracting or listing cabinet files you did not specify, use the -s option.

OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

-d dir: Extracts all files into the directory dir.
-f: When extracting cabinet files, corrupted MSZIP blocks will be ignored. A warning will be printed if a corrupted MSZIP block is encountered.
-F pattern: Only files with names that match the shell pattern pattern shall be extracted. On non-GNU systems, this match is case-sensitive.
-h: Prints a page of help and exits.
-l: Lists the contents of the given cabinet files, rather than extracting them.
-L: When extracting cabinet files, makes each extracted file's name lowercase.
-p: Files shall be extracted to standard output.
-q: When extracting cabinet files, suppresses all messages except errors and warnings.
-s: When listing or extracting cabinets which span multiple files, only cabinet files given on the command line shall be used.
-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.

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.