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Atool - Script for managing file archives

atool manages file archives (tar, tar+gzip, zip, etc). 'aunpack' extracts files from an archive, andt 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. Other commands provided are apack (for creating archives), als (for listing files in archives), and acat (for extracting files to stdout).

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.student.lu.se/~nbi98oli/atool.html
Source tarballhttp://www.student.lu.se/~nbi98oli/src/atool-0.29.0.tar.gz
Version 0.29.0 (stable) released on 2004-07-06
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is not a GNU package.

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Related information

Interfacescommand line
Source languagesPerl
Use requirementsPerl 5.004 (or later)
Weak prerequisitestar, gzip, bzip, bzip2, zip, unzip

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-04-26
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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