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NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       cabextract [-ddir] [-f] [-Fpattern] [-h] [-l] [-L] [-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.

       -f     When testing or extracting cabinet files, corrupted MSZIP blocks will be ignored. A  warning  will
              be printed if a corrupted MSZIP block is encountered.

       -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.

       -h     Prints a page of help and exits.

       -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.

       -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@4u.net>, based on the one written by Eric Sharkey
       <sharkey@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

SEE ALSO

       lcab(1)

                                                October 30, 2005                                   CABEXTRACT(1)