Provide option to extract selected files

[MestreLion]

This was reported in 2004 in Debian Bug Tracking System: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=260174

A working patch ready to merge was also provided (tho the syntax is not optimal, better than -f FILE for a single file (or multiple -f) is to do as tar and many other tools: all arguments (not options) after the cabinet name are filenames to be extracted.

This is a very needed feature! And it is present in virtually all extractors, like zip, 7z, rar, tar, gz, etc. Much more useful, IMHO, than -c or -g (which I honestly have no idea what they are)

[twogood]

It seems I was involved in the discussion back then, but probably forgot about it later. Thanks for reminding me!

[twogood]

Please pull the repo and give it a try!

[twogood]

Closing due to lack of feedback.

[MestreLion]

I'm sorry for the lack of feedback... at that time I didn't have a development environment where I could compile and run from source.

Reading the diff in commit 9b576e2 everything seems fine. My C is rusty, but it looks like you're looping every file in args after the .cab name. So no -f, which is great!

I'm not sure how fnmatch works, but if it accepts wildcards such as *.png (properly escaped so shell does not parse it), then awesome!

Also, it seems the loop recurses all paths by design, correct? Nice! If not, a -R option would be a nice addition in the future.

[twogood]

No worries!

Please test the recursive stuff sometime... :-)