simple-extract

simple-extract

Simple File Extraction

Description

A small command line file extraction utility written in Python. It uses external tools to optionally fetch from an url and decompress many types of archives.

Getting started

Python >= 3.12 needed

External tools that can be used:

• tar
• gzip
• bzip2
• unrar
• lha
• 7z
• unzip
• rpm2cpio
• cpio
• ar
• xz
• zstd
• curl
• wget
• fetch

Installing

Manual local install

$ clone the git repository from https://github.com/berrym/simple_extract.git
$ python3 -m venv .venv
$ source .venv/bin/acivate
$ python3 -m build
$ pip3 install .

Package installation Recommended

$ python3 -m pip install simple-extract         # if you have permissions

or

$ python3 -m pip install --user simple-extract  # will store in user's local directories

or Recommended install method

$ pipx install simple-extract  # will install to a venv and install an executable link

Executing program

$ /path/to/venv/bin/simple-extract  # if cloned and manually built but no longer in the venv.

or if installed via pip, pipx

$ simple-extract https://github.com/ibara/mg/releases/download/mg-6.8.1/mg-6.8.1.tar.gz

Tip

If you have a shell environment that supports aliases, it's useful to alias simple-extract.

On common unix/linux shells you might run or put this in your shell rc script.

$ alias se='simple-extract'

Then you can execute the program by typing se

Authors

Copyright 2025 Michael Berry [e-mail]

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.