simple_extract

Simple File Extraction

Description

A small command line file extraction utility written in Python. It uses external tools to optionally fetch from an url and decompress archives.

Getting started

Python >= 3.9 needed

External tools that can be used:

• tar
• gzip
• bzip2
• unrar
• lha
• 7z
• unzip
• rpm2cpio
• cpio
• ar
• xz
• zstd
• curl
• wget
• fetch

Installing

Manual local install

$ clone the git repository from https://github.com/berrym/simple_extract.git
$ python3 -m venv /path/to/venv
$ sh /path/to/venv/bin/acivate
$ python3 -m build
$ /path/to/venv/bin/pip3 install .

Package installation Recommended

$ python3 -m pip install simple-extract

or

$ python3 -m pip install --user simple-extract

or

$ pipx install simple-extract

Executing program

$ /path/to/venv/bin/simple-extract  # if cloned and manually built
or:
$ python3 simple_extract.py some-archive.tar.gz some-other-archive.lzma
or if installed via pip or pipx:
$ simple-extract https://github.com/ibara/mg/releases/download/mg-6.8.1/mg-6.8.1.tar.gz

Authors

Copyright 2024 Michael Berry trismegustis@gmail.com

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.