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UNP : Universal File Unpacking Utility for Ubuntu / Debian / OpenSuSe / Fedora

Unp is a small perl script which makes extraction of any archive files in easy way. It support several compressors and archiver programs, chooses the right one(s) automatically and extracts one or more files using a single command. It supports rar, zip, tar.gz, deb, tar.gz2, rpm etc..

Installation:
Ubuntu / Debian: $ sudo apt-get install unp
OpenSuSe user can use "1-click" installer to install Unp - here
Fedora: # yum  install  unp

Usage:
Method 1 (unpack all archives in a directory)
$ unp *.*
Method 2 (unpack, for example, all .rar archives in a directory):
$ unp *.rar
Method 3 (unpack 1 archive):
$unp archivefile
Method 4 (unpack several archives at the same time):
$unp archivefile1 archivefile 2
More examples
unp *.tar.gz, unp *.tar.bz, unp *.rpm, unp *.deb, unp *.zip, unp *.rar
Check out the manual pages for unp for more details:
$man unp ( for more help)


3 comments:

kpb said...

Great tip! Do you know if 'Unp' is available for Fedora?

DevOps said...

yes:

yum install unp

Anonymous said...

I use dtrx by Brett Smith. "In addition to providing one command to handle many different archive types, dtrx also aids the user by extracting contents consistently. By 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." (quoted from manpage)

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