cabextract - program to extract files from Microsoft cabinet
(.cab) archives
cabextract [-ddir] [-f]
[-Fpattern] [-eencoding]
[-h] [-l] [-L] [-p] [-q] [-s]
[-t] [-v] cabinet files ...
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.
A summary of options is included below.
- -d dir
- Extracts all files into the directory dir.
- -f
- Corrupted cabinet files will be 'fixed' to salvage whatever is possible
from them. File entries with bad folders or names will be skipped rather
than rejecting the entire cabinet file. Impossible file lengths will be
truncated to extract as much as possible, including when you're missing
later files in a cabinet set. Corrupted MSZIP blocks and failed block
checksums will be ignored. Warnings will be printed if any of these
conditions are met.
- -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.
- -e encoding
- Specify the character encoding of filenames inside the cabinet files. This
is only needed if you find cabinet files with garbled filenames; most
software creates CAB files with either ASCII or UTF8 filenames. The list
of supported encodings is given by the command "iconv -l".
- -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.
This manual page was written by Stuart Caie
<kyzer@cabextract.org.uk>, based on the one written by Eric Sharkey
<sharkey@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.