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title: portable archive file manager
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description: patool is a portable archive file manager
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---
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Introduction
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[](http://xkcd.com/1168/)
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I could never remember the correct options for all those different compression
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programs. Tar, unzip, gzip - you name it and I forgot it.
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Patool remembers all those options for me now so I don't have to.
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Description
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Various archive types can be created, extracted, tested, listed,
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compared, searched and
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repacked with patool. The advantage of patool is its simplicity in
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handling archive files without having to remember a myriad of
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programs and options.
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The archive format is determined by the file(1) program and as
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a fallback by the archive file extension.
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patool supports 7z (.7z), ACE (.ace), ADF (.adf), ALZIP (.alz),
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APE (.ape), AR (.a), ARC (.arc), ARJ (.arj), BZIP2 (.bz2), CAB
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(.cab), COMPRESS (.Z), CPIO (.cpio), DEB (.deb), DMS (.dms),
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FLAC (.flac), GZIP (.gz), LRZIP (.lrz), LZH (.lha, .lzh), LZIP
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(.lz), LZMA (.lzma), LZOP (.lzo), RPM (.rpm), RAR (.rar), RZIP
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(.rz), SHN (.shn), TAR (.tar), XZ (.xz), ZIP (.zip, .jar) and
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ZOO (.zoo) formats. It relies on helper applications to handle
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those archive formats (for example bzip2 for BZIP2 archives).
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The archive formats TAR, ZIP, BZIP2 and
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GZIP are supported natively and do not require helper
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applications to be installed.
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Installation
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The easy way with pip:
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```bash
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pip install patool
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```
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For Python 2.x you'll need at least Python 2.7, for Python 3.x at least Python 3.3.
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If you install from source read the
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[installation instructions](https://github.com/wummel/patool/blob/master/doc/install.txt).
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Examples
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```bash
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# extract two archives
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patool extract archive.zip otherarchive.rar
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# test if archive is intact
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patool test --verbose dist.tar.gz
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# list files inside an archive
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patool list package.deb
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# create a new archive
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patool create --verbose myfiles.zip file1.txt dir/
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# list differences between two archive contents
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patool diff release1.0.tar.gz release2.0.zip
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# search archive contents
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patool search "def urlopen" python-3.3.tar.gz
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# compress the archive in a different format
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patool repack linux-2.6.33.tar.gz linux-2.6.33.tar.bz2
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```
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Donate
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If you like patool, consider a donation to support it. Thanks!
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