1CABEXTRACT(1)               General Commands Manual              CABEXTRACT(1)
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NAME

6       cabextract - program to extract files from Microsoft cabinet (.cab) ar‐
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SYNOPSIS

10       cabextract [-ddir] [-f] [-Fpattern] [-eencoding] [-h]  [-l]  [-L]  [-p]
11       [-q] [-s] [-t] [-v]  cabinet files ...
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DESCRIPTION

14       cabextract is a program that un-archives files in the Microsoft cabinet
15       file format (.cab) or any binary file which contains an embedded  cabi‐
16       net file (frequently found in .exe files).
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18       cabextract  will  extract all files from all cabinet files specified on
19       the command line.
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21       To extract a multi-part cabinet consisting of several files,  only  the
22       first cabinet file needs to be given as an argument to cabextract as it
23       will automatically look for the remaining files. To prevent  cabextract
24       from extracting cabinet files you did not specify, use the -s option.
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OPTIONS

27       A summary of options is included below.
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29       -d dir Extracts all files into the directory dir.
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31       -f     Corrupted  cabinet  files will be 'fixed' to salvage whatever is
32              possible from them. File entries with bad folders or names  will
33              be  skipped  rather  than  rejecting   the  entire cabinet file.
34              Impossible file lengths will be truncated to extract as much  as
35              possible, including when you're missing later files in a cabinet
36              set. Corrupted MSZIP blocks and failed block checksums  will  be
37              ignored.   Warnings  will  be printed if any of these conditions
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40       -F pattern
41              Only files with names that match the shell pattern pattern shall
42              be  listed,  tested or extracted. On non-GNU systems, this match
43              may be case-sensitive.
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45       -e encoding
46              Specify the character encoding of filenames inside  the  cabinet
47              files.   This is only needed if you find cabinet files with gar‐
48              bled filenames; most software  creates  CAB  files  with  either
49              ASCII  or  UTF8  filenames.   The list of supported encodings is
50              given by the command "iconv -l".
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52       -h     Prints a page of help and exits.
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54       -l     Lists the contents of  the  given  cabinet  files,  rather  than
55              extracting them.
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57       -L     When  extracting cabinet files, makes each extracted file's name
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60       -p     Files shall be extracted to standard output.
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62       -q     When extracting cabinet files, suppresses  all  messages  except
63              errors and warnings.
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65       -s     When testing, listing or extracting cabinets which span multiple
66              files, only cabinet files given on the  command  line  shall  be
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69       -t     Tests  the integrity of the cabinet. Files are decompressed, but
70              not written to disk or standard output. If the file successfully
71              decompresses, the MD5 checksum of the file is printed.
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73       -v     If given alone on the command line, prints the version of cabex‐
74              tract and exits. Given with a list of  cabinet  files,  it  will
75              list the contents of the cabinet files.
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AUTHOR

78       This  manual page was written by Stuart Caie <kyzer@cabextract.org.uk>,
79       based on the one written by Eric Sharkey <sharkey@debian.org>, for  the
80       Debian GNU/Linux system.
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84                                 March 7, 2018                   CABEXTRACT(1)