Extracts files from an archive (gz,zip etc) – atool utility
With atool, you can handle any archive without having to remember what command-line tool to use to expand it and which options that particular tool expects. Atool comes with a collection of commands, including aunpack, apack, als, acat, adiff.
The main command is aunpack which extracts files from an archive
Examples
# aunpack backup.tar.gz
# aunpack -e *.tar.gz
# apack archive.zip home
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Category: Linux Administration
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