cabextract(1)

NAME

   cabextract  -  program  to  extract files from Microsoft cabinet (.cab)
   archives

SYNOPSIS

   cabextract [-ddir] [-f] [-Fpattern] [-h] [-l] [-L] [-p] [-q] [-s]  [-t]
   [-v]  cabinet files ...

DESCRIPTION

   cabextract is a program that un-archives files in the Microsoft cabinet
   file format (.cab) or  any  binary  file  which  contains  an  embedded
   cabinet file (frequently found in .exe files).

   cabextract  will  extract all files from all cabinet files specified on
   the command line.

   To extract a multi-part cabinet consisting of several files,  only  the
   first cabinet file needs to be given as an argument to cabextract as it
   will automatically look for the remaining files. To prevent  cabextract
   from extracting cabinet files you did not specify, use the -s option.

OPTIONS

   A summary of options is included below.

   -d dir Extracts all files into the directory dir.

   -f     When testing or extracting cabinet files, corrupted MSZIP blocks
          will be ignored. A warning will be printed if a corrupted  MSZIP
          block is encountered.

   -F pattern
          Only files with names that match the shell pattern pattern shall
          be listed, tested or extracted. On non-GNU systems,  this  match
          may be case-sensitive.

   -h     Prints a page of help and exits.

   -l     Lists  the  contents  of  the  given  cabinet files, rather than
          extracting them.

   -L     When extracting cabinet files, makes each extracted file's  name
          lowercase.

   -p     Files shall be extracted to standard output.

   -q     When  extracting  cabinet  files, suppresses all messages except
          errors and warnings.

   -s     When testing, listing or extracting cabinets which span multiple
          files,  only  cabinet  files  given on the command line shall be
          used.

   -t     Tests the integrity of the cabinet. Files are decompressed,  but
          not written to disk or standard output. If the file successfully
          decompresses, the MD5 checksum of the file is printed.

   -v     If given alone on  the  command  line,  prints  the  version  of
          cabextract  and  exits.  Given  with a list of cabinet files, it
          will list the contents of the cabinet files.

AUTHOR

   This manual page was written by Stuart Caie  <[email protected]>,  based  on
   the  one  written  by Eric Sharkey <[email protected]>, for the Debian
   GNU/Linux system.

SEE ALSO

   lcab(1)

                           October 30, 2005                  CABEXTRACT(1)

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