all-unpacker

all-unpacker

Wrapper for unar and lsar command line tool. It allows you to unpack a lot of formats: zip, zipx, rar, 7z, tar, gzip, bzip2, lzma, cab, msi, cpio,... complete list

Installation

This package has been replaced with node-unar.

Usage

var ua = require('all-unpacker');
// list only:
ua.list(archiveFile<String>, options<Object>, callback<function>)
// unpack:
ua.unpack(archiveFile<String>, options<Object>, callback<function>)

Examples

Example: unpack file

require('all-unpacker')
.unpack('test/abc.rar', {
    targetDir: 'out'
}, function(err, files, text) {
   if (err) return console.error(err);
   if (files) console.log('files', files);
   if (text) console.log('text', text);
});

Example: list content

function cb(err, files, text) {
    if (err) return console.error(err);
    console.log('files', files);
}
require('all-unpacker').list('test/abc.rar', {}, cb);

Options

Key	Possible values	Comment
quiet	true/false (default)	true will reduce logging for unpacking
targetDir	<String>	The directory to write the contents of the archive to. Defaults to the current directory.
files	<String>	Only unpack this list of files or directories.
forceOverwrite	true/false (default)	if null, tmp dir will created automatically
forceDirectory	true/false/undefined	Always create a containing directory for the contents of the unpacked archive. By default, a directory is created if there is more than one top-level file or folder.
noDirectory	true/false/undefined	Never create a containing directory for the contents of the unpacked archive.
noRecursion	true/false/undefined	Do not attempt to extract archives contained in other archives. For instance, when unpacking a .tar.gz file, only unpack the .gz file and not its contents.
copyTime	true/false/undefined	Copy the file modification time from the archive file to the containing directory, if one is created.
password	<String>	The password to use for decrypting protected archives.
passwordEncoding	<String>	The encoding to use for the password for the archive, when it is not known. If not specified, then either the encoding given by the -encoding option or the auto-detected encoding is used.
encoding	<String>	The encoding to use for filenames in the archive, when it is not known. If not specified, the program attempts to auto-detect the encoding used. Use "help" or "list" as the argument to give