CABEXTRACT(1)               General Commands Manual              CABEXTRACT(1)

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

SYNOPSIS
       cabextract [-ddir] [-eencoding] [-f] [-Fpattern] [-h] [-i] [-k] [-l]
       [-L] [-n] [-p] [-q] [-s] [-t] [-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 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.

       -e encoding
              Specify the character encoding of filenames inside the cabinet
              files.  This is only needed if you find cabinet files with
              garbled filenames; most software creates CAB files with either
              ASCII or UTF8 filenames.  The list of supported encodings is
              given by the command "iconv -l".

       -f     Corrupted cabinet files will be 'fixed' to salvage whatever is
              possible from them. File entries with bad folders or names will
              be skipped rather than rejecting  the entire cabinet file.
              Impossible file lengths will be truncated to extract as much as
              possible, including when you're missing later files in a cabinet
              set. Corrupted MSZIP blocks and failed block checksums will be
              ignored.  Warnings will be printed if any of these conditions
              are met.

       -F pattern
              Only files with names that match the shell pattern pattern shall
              be listed, tested or extracted. On non-GNU systems, this match
              may be case-sensitive. Use the option repeatedly to supply more
              than one pattern.  Files will be listed, tested or extracted if
              they match any pattern.

       -h     Prints a page of help and exits.

       -i     Prompts before overwriting files.

       -k     Don't overwrite symlinks when extracting files.

       -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.

       -n     Never overwrite existing files.

       -p     Files shall be extracted to standard output.

       -q     When extracting cabinet files, suppresses all messages except
              errors and warnings.

       -s     When testing, listing or extracting cabinets which span multiple
              files, only cabinet files given on the command line shall be
              used.

       -t     Tests the integrity of the cabinet. Files are decompressed, but
              not written to disk or standard output. If the file successfully
              decompresses, the MD5 checksum of the file is printed.

       -v     If given alone on the command line, prints the version 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 <kyzer@cabextract.org.uk>,
       based on the one written by Eric Sharkey <sharkey@debian.org>, for the
       Debian GNU/Linux system.

                                 March 7, 2018                   CABEXTRACT(1)