summary:

Manage many types of file archives

description:

atool is a script for managing file archives of various types (tar, tar+gzip, zip, bzip2, rar, 7zip, ...). atool is called under several names:

• aunpack extracts files from an archive. It overcomes the dreaded 'multiple files in archive root' problem by first extracting to a unique subdirectory, and then moving back the files if possible. aunpack also prevents local files from being overwritten by mistake.

• apack creates archives.

• als lists files in archives.

• acat extracts files to standard out.

• adiff generates a diff between archives.

• arepack repacks an archive in a different format.

categories:

Archive Utils

depends:

perl

source package:

atool

maintainer(s):

Andrew Schulman (Use the mailing list to report bugs or ask questions. Do not contact the maintainer(s) directly.)

readme:

atool.README