CABEXTRACT(1)                                       CABEXTRACT(1)



NAME
       cabextract - program to extract files from Microsoft cabi-
       net (.cab) archives

SYNOPSIS
       cabextract [-ddir] [-f] [-Fpattern] [-h]  [-l]  [-L]  [-p]
       [-q] [-s] [-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
       or  listing  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  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  extracted.  On non-GNU systems,
              this match is 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  mes-
              sages except errors and warnings.

       -s     When listing or extracting cabinets which span mul-
              tiple files, only cabinet files given on  the  com-
              mand line shall be used.

       -v     If given alone on the command line, prints the ver-
              sion 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
       ,  based  on the one written by Eric Sharkey
       , for the Debian GNU/Linux system.



                          April 20, 2003            CABEXTRACT(1)