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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Dtrx – An Intelligent Archive Extraction (tar, zip, cpio, rpm, deb, rar) Tool for Linux - dtrx Intelligent archive extraction

I you work in the Terminal and need to extract Archive Files, of different types. Check out Dtrx – An Intelligent Archive Extraction (tar, zip, cpio, rpm, deb, rar) Tool for Linux. I almost always, just use Krusader File Managed to do this. But, sometimes you may be on a system, without Krusader, installed. Or run into an Archive File format, that is not supported by Krusader. I just installed Dtrx on my Fedora 23 System, in the Graphic Yum Package Manager App. I imagine, DNF, the new Fedora Package Manager will have it too. I tried out dtrx, on a Archive file in my Downloads folder. And it unpacked the Archive, into a new folder of it's own, in my Downloads folder. A pretty cool, app and easy to use. See the ScreenShot Below...

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dtrx: Intelligent archive extraction

Introduction

dtrx stands for "Do The Right Extraction." It's a tool for Unix-like systems that takes all the hassle out of extracting archives. Here's an example of how you use it:

$ dtrx linux-3.0.1.tar.bz2

That's basically the same thing as:

$ tar -jxf linux-3.0.1.tar.bz2

But there's more to it than that. You know those really annoying files that don't put everything in a dedicated directory, and have the permissions all wrong?

$ tar -zvxf random-tarball.tar.gz  foo  bar  data/  data/text  $ cd data/  cd: permission denied: data

dtrx takes care of all those problems for you, too:

$ dtrx random-tarball.tar.gz  $ cd random-tarball/data  $ cat text  This all works properly.

dtrx is simple and powerful. Just use the same command for all your archive files, and they'll never frustrate you again.

Features

Handles many archive types: You only need to remember one simple command to extract tar, zip, cpio, deb, rpm, gem, 7z, cab, lzh, rar, gz, bz2, lzma, xz, and many kinds of exe files, including Microsoft Cabinet archives, InstallShield archives, and self-extracting zip files. If they have any extra compression, like tar.bz2 files, dtrx will take care of that for you, too.
Keeps everything organized: dtrx will make sure that archives are extracted into their own dedicated directories.
Sane permissions: dtrx makes sure you can read and write all the files you just extracted, while leaving the rest of the permissions intact.
Recursive extraction: dtrx can find archives inside the archive and extract those too.