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@@ -1,12 +1,48 @@ -dtrx - Intelligent archive extraction -===================================== - -Introduction ------------- +==== +dtrx +==== + +---------------------------------- +cleanly extract many archive types +---------------------------------- + +:Author: Brett Smith <brettcsmith@brettcsmith.org> +:Date: 2009-07-04 +:Copyright: + + dtrx 6.5 is copyright © 2006-2009 Brett Smith and others. Feel free to + send comments, bug reports, patches, and so on. You can find the latest + version of dtrx on its home page at + <http://www.brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/>. + + dtrx is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the + terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software + Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any + later version. + + This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but + WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of + MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General + Public License for more details. + + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along + with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. + +:Version: 6.5 +:Manual section: 1 + +SYNOPSIS +======== + +dtrx [OPTIONS] ARCHIVE [ARCHIVE ...] + +DESCRIPTION +=========== dtrx extracts archives in a number of different formats; it currently -supports tar, zip, cpio, rpm, deb, gem, 7z, cab, and rar files. It can -also decompress files compressed with gzip, bzip2, lzma, or compress. +supports tar, zip (including self-extracting .exe files), cpio, rpm, deb, +gem, 7z, cab, rar, and InstallShield files. It can also decompress files +compressed with gzip, bzip2, lzma, or compress. In addition to providing one command to handle many different archive types, dtrx also aids the user by extracting contents consistently. By @@ -14,14 +50,14 @@ default, everything will be written to a dedicated directory that's named after the archive. dtrx will also change the permissions to ensure that the owner can read and write all those files. -Running dtrx ------------- - To run dtrx, simply call it with the archive(s) you wish to extract as arguments. For example:: $ dtrx coreutils-5.*.tar.gz +OPTIONS +======= + dtrx supports a number of options to mandate specific behavior: -r, --recursive @@ -84,26 +120,3 @@ dtrx supports a number of options to mandate specific behavior: --version Display dtrx's version, copyright, and license information. - -Other Useful Information ------------------------- - -dtrx 6.4 is copyright ⓒ 2006, 2007, 2008 `Brett Smith`_ and others. Feel -free to send comments, bug reports, patches, and so on. You can find the -latest version of dtrx on `its home page`_. - -.. _`Brett Smith`: mailto:brettcsmith@brettcsmith.org -.. _`its home page`: http://www.brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/ - -dtrx is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the -terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software -Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later -version. - -This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT -ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or -FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for -more details. - -You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along -with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |