tldr/pages/linux/patool.md

patool

Archive file manager. Various archive formats can be created, extracted, tested, listed, searched, repacked, and compared. More information: https://github.com/wummel/patool.

• Extract an archive:

patool extract {{path/to/archive}}

• Create an archive:

patool create {{path/to/archive}} {{path/to/file_or_directory1 path/to/file_or_directory2 ...}}

• List contents of an archive:

patool list {{path/to/archive}}

• Compare the contents of two archives and display the differences in the standard output:

patool diff {{path/to/archive1}} {{path/to/archive2}}

• Search for a string inside the contents of an archive:

patool search {{path/to/archive}}