unp – Unpack (almost) everything with one command
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You may also want to install some non-free packages like "unace-nonfree", "unrar-nonfree" and "lha" to extract archives of these types.
Install unp in ubuntu
sudo apt-get install unp
Using unp
Unp Examples
unpack all archives in a directory
unp *.*
unpack, for example, all .rar archives in a directory
unp *.rar
unpack 1 archive
unp archivefile
unpack several archives at the same time
unp archivefile1 archivefile 2
Some more examples
unp *.tar.gz
unp *.tar.bz
unp *.rpm
unp *.deb
unp *.zip
unp *.rar
Known Problem
It doesn't extract files from RAR archives with full path
unp man page
NAME
unp – a shell frontend for uncompressing/unpacking tools
SYNOPSIS
unp [-u] file [ files ... ] [ --- backend args ... ] ucat file [ files ... ]
unp is a small script with only one goal: Extract as many archives as possible, of any
kind and from any path to the current directory, preserving the subdirectory structure
where needed. Is a Do-What-I-Want utility and helps managing several extraction programs without looking for needed options for the particular tool or worrying about
the installation of the needed program.
Run unp without arguments to see the list of supported archive formats.
The special version ucat acts as wrapper for commands that can output the extracted
data to standard output, like bzip (bzcat), gzip (zcat), tar,zip and others.
USAGE
unp extract one or more files given as arguments on the command line. Additionaly, it may pass some options to the backend tools (like taroptions) when they are appended after `–´.
There is also a special option (-u) which is very usefull for extracting of Debian packages. Using -u, unp extracts the package (i.e. the ar archive) first, then extracts data.tar.gz in the current directory and then control.tar.gz in control//.
NOTES
unp will try to decompress into a FILE.unp if it get trouble with existing files. But don’t count on this feature, always look for free working space before using unp.
In contrary to gunzip which decompresses the file in the target directory of the source file,unp will use current directory for output.
“e” is MUCH better then unp try it out:
http://fail2care.com/e-extract-any-archive
hm. seems to me that both tools are quite similar.
but with using “e” i have to install ruby.
why should i do this, when unp(perl based) works out of the box?
unp is a package whereas e isn’t it’s just a script and yes you need to install ruby but it’s still only 1 package you need to install and also e is easier to to remember and quicker to type
also for multiple file in a folder here is an example
e *
vs
unp *.*
Why not:
for f in *;do case “$(echo $f|sed “s/.*\.\([a-z\.]*\)/\1/g”)” in zip)unzip -qqo $f&&rm $f;;tar.gz|tar.bz2)tar xf $f&&rm $f;;tar.bz2)tar yxf $f&&rm $f;;rar)unrar e -o+ -r -y $f&&rm $f;;7z)7z e -qqo $f;;esac;done
?
that only unrar’s every file and is very long e is just a simple command 😉
“e” doesn’t seem to have an option similar to “unp”‘s ‘smart’ mode (-U), which will avoid carelessly-created archives from polluting your current working directory:
$ unp -h
[…]
-u Special helper mode.
For most archive types:
– create directory /
– extract contents there
For Debian/Ubuntu packages:
– extract data.tar.gz after each operation in local directory
– extract control.tar.gz into control//
-U Smart mode, acts like -u (see above) if archive contains multiple
elements but if there is only one file/directory element then it’s stored
in the current directory.
[…]
Also:
alias e=unp
There.
No ruby.