patool

Archive file manager. Various archive formats can be created, extracted, tested, listed, searched, repacked, and compared. More information: https://github.com/wummel/patool.

  • Extract an archive:

patool extract path/to/archive

  • List contents of an archive:

patool list path/to/archive

  • Compare the contents of two archives and display the differences in the standard output:

patool diff path/to/archive1 path/to/archive2

  • Search for a string inside the contents of an archive:

patool search path/to/archive