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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] [-h] [-l] [-L] [-p] [-q] [-s]  [-t]
11       [-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     When testing or extracting cabinet files, corrupted MSZIP blocks
32              will be ignored. A warning will be printed if a corrupted  MSZIP
33              block is encountered.
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35       -F pattern
36              Only files with names that match the shell pattern pattern shall
37              be listed, tested or extracted. On non-GNU systems,  this  match
38              may be case-sensitive.
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40       -h     Prints a page of help and exits.
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42       -l     Lists  the  contents  of  the  given  cabinet files, rather than
43              extracting them.
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45       -L     When extracting cabinet files, makes each extracted file's  name
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48       -p     Files shall be extracted to standard output.
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50       -q     When  extracting  cabinet  files, suppresses all messages except
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53       -s     When testing, listing or extracting cabinets which span multiple
54              files,  only  cabinet  files  given on the command line shall be
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57       -t     Tests the integrity of the cabinet. Files are decompressed,  but
58              not written to disk or standard output. If the file successfully
59              decompresses, the MD5 checksum of the file is printed.
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61       -v     If given alone on the command line, prints the version of cabex‐
62              tract  and  exits.  Given  with a list of cabinet files, it will
63              list the contents of the cabinet files.
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AUTHOR

66       This manual page was written by Stuart Caie  <kyzer@4u.net>,  based  on
67       the  one  written  by Eric Sharkey <sharkey@debian.org>, for the Debian
68       GNU/Linux system.
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