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] [-h] [-l] [-L] [-p] [-q] [-s] [-v]
11       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  or listing cabinet files you did not specify, use the
25       -s option.
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OPTIONS

28       A summary of options is included below.
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30       -d dir Extracts all files into the directory dir.
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32       -f     When extracting cabinet files, corrupted MSZIP  blocks  will  be
33              ignored.   A  warning will be printed if a corrupted MSZIP block
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36       -F pattern
37              Only files with names that match the shell pattern pattern shall
38              be extracted. On non-GNU systems, this match is 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
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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 listing or extracting cabinets which span  multiple  files,
54              only cabinet files given on the command line shall be used.
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56       -v     If given alone on the command line, prints the version of cabex‐
57              tract and exits. Given with a list of  cabinet  files,  it  will
58              list the contents of the cabinet files.
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AUTHOR

61       This  manual  page  was written by Stuart Caie <kyzer@4u.net>, based on
62       the one written by Eric Sharkey <sharkey@debian.org>,  for  the  Debian
63       GNU/Linux system.
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67                                April 20, 2003                   CABEXTRACT(1)