NAME¶
unp - a shell frontend for uncompressing/unpacking tools
SYNOPSIS¶
unp [
-u]
file [ files ... ]
[ -- backend args
... ]
ucat file
[ files ... ]
unp is a small script with only one goal: Extract as many archives as
possible, of any kind and from any path to the current directory, preserving
the subdirectory structure where needed. Is a Do-What-I-Want utility and helps
managing several extraction programs without looking for needed options for
the particular tool or worrying about the installation of the needed program.
Run
unp without arguments to see the list of supported archive formats.
The special version
ucat acts as wrapper for commands that can output the
extracted data to standard output, like bzip (bzcat), gzip (zcat), tar, zip
and others.
USAGE¶
unp extracts one or more files given as arguments on the command line.
Additionally, it may pass some options to the backend tools (like tar options)
when they are appended after `--´.
There is also a special option (-u) which is very useful for extracting Debian
packages. Using -u, unp extracts the package (i.e. the ar archive) first, then
extracts data.tar.gz in the current directory and then control.tar.gz in
control/<filename>/.
NOTES¶
unp will try to decompress into a FILE.unp if it get trouble with existing
files. But don't count on this feature, always look for free working space
before using unp.
Unlike gunzip, which decompresses the file in the target directory of the source
file, unp uses the current directory for output.
AUTHOR¶
Development started by Andre Karwath
<andre.karwath@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Now maintained and packaged for Debian by Eduard Bloch
<blade@debian.org>