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/file1}} {{/path/to/file2}} {{/path/to/dir1/}} {{/path/to/dir2/}}

• 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}}