deco deco application is a generic archive file extractor.
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deco application is a generic archive file extractor. deco application is a generic archive file extractor. Here are some key features of "deco": · Consistent command line interface: · Instead of having to remember e. g. · tar xjf 1.tar.bz2 · unrar x 2.zip · flac -d 3.flac · ar -p 4.deb data.tar.gz | tar xz · you say · deco 1.tar.bz2 2.zip 3.flac 4.deb · and deco extracts them all. · Consistent behavior: · Keep or delete archive? · Some extractors delete the archive after successful extraction, others don't. · deco keeps the archive after successful extraction, unless you give it the -u ("unlink") option. · Where to extract · Some extractors extract in the current working directory, others use the directory the archive resides in. · deco extracts relative to the current working directory, unless you give it the -a ("absolute") option. See down below for details. · Quiet / verbose · Some extractors process the archive verbosely by default and expect you to specify that quiet behavior is wanted. Others do the opposite. · deco extract quietly, unless you give it the -v ("verbose") option. · Unknown file extensions · Some extractors refuse to even try extracting anything with an unknown extension. · deco can force an extractor to handle a file with any name. Use the -e ("extension") option: deco -e gz myarchive · Other improvements · When you extract an archive that contains multiple files at its top level, you usually want them to be placed in a directory of their own. However, if the archive contains only one file or one big directory, that behavior would be annoying. · The deco extraction algorithm does the right thing automatically: if and only if foo.tar contains multiple files at its top level, a new directory generally called foo/ is created and the archive gets extracted there. · Also, deco never overwrites files, nor does it need to prompt you for a manual resolution. · If the file to be extracted is named foo and a file called foo already exists, the new file will be extracted as %foo, and so on. · Since at the top level only one new file or directory is created (see above), at most this one file will have its name changed like that. · There are extractors that create files with strange permissions. deco can reset these to sensible defaults implied by your current umask. What's New in This Release: · The build system has been updated for BSD users having trouble compiling deco.

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