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NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

cabextract [-ddir] [-eencoding] [-f] [-Fpattern] [-h] [-i] [-k] [-l]
[-L] [-n] [-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.

-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".

-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. Use the option repeatedly to
supply more than one pattern. Files will be listed, tested or
extracted if they match any pattern.

-h Prints a page of help and exits.

-i Prompts before overwriting files.

-k Don't overwrite symlinks when extracting files.

-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.

-n Never overwrite existing files.

-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
<kyzer@cabextract.org.uk>, based on the one written by Eric Sharkey
<sharkey@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

March 7, 2018 CABEXTRACT(1)