CABEXTRACT(1) General Commands Manual CABEXTRACT(1)
NAME
cabextract - program to extract files from Microsoft cabinet (.cab) ar-
chives
SYNOPSIS
cabextract [-ddir] [-f] [-Fpattern] [-eencoding] [-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 cabi-
net 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 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. Im-
possible 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 gar-
bled 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 ex-
tracting 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 cabex-
tract 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 <kyzer@cabextract.org.uk>,
based on the one written by Eric Sharkey <sharkey@debian.org>, for the
Debian GNU/Linux system.
SEE ALSO
lcab(1)
March 7, 2018 CABEXTRACT(1)
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