Easy de-archiving

Shashank Sharma considers himself to be a multitasking maestro, and is naturally impressed with nifty utilities that can do the job of many.

The Linux distro is home to a large number of compression utilities, each with its own myriad subcommands and options. Remembering them all is a Herculean challenge, even for veterans. What complicates the situation further is that no single tool is equipped to handle all of the many different file formats, such as TAR, BZ2, GZIP, GZ, TAR.GZ, RAR and so on. Released under the GPLv3 licence, Patool is a portable archive file manager written in Python. You no longer have to rely on separate commands or remember their myriad options, as Patool supports just about all archive and compression formats. Even better, it uses sane and generic command options such as extract and create to respectively decompress an archive or to make one from the supplied set of files.…

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