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<h1>dtrx: Intelligent archive extraction</h1>
<h2>Introduction</h2>
<p><span class="pname">dtrx</span> stands for “Do The Right
Extraction.” It's a tool for Unix-like systems that takes all the
hassle out of extracting archives. Here's an example of how you use
it:</p>
<pre>$ dtrx linux-3.0.1.tar.bz2</pre>
<p>That's basically the same thing as:</p>
<pre>$ tar -jxf linux-3.0.1.tar.bz2</pre>
<p>But there's more to it than that. You know those really annoying files
that don't put everything in a dedicated directory, and have the
permissions all wrong?</p>
<pre>$ tar -zvxf random-tarball.tar.gz
foo
bar
data/
data/text
$ cd data/
cd: permission denied: data</pre>
<p><span class="pname">dtrx</span> takes care of all those problems for
you, too:</p>
<pre>$ dtrx random-tarball.tar.gz
$ cd random-tarball/data
$ cat text
This all works properly.</pre>
<p><span class="pname">dtrx</span> is simple and powerful. Just use the
same command for all your archive files, and they'll never frustrate you
again.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Handles many archive types</strong>: You only need to remember
one simple command to extract
<span class="pname">tar</span>,
<span class="pname">zip</span>,
<span class="pname">cpio</span>,
<span class="pname">deb</span>,
<span class="pname">rpm</span>,
<span class="pname">gem</span>,
<span class="pname">7z</span>,
<span class="pname">cab</span>,
<span class="pname">lzh</span>,
<span class="pname">rar</span>,
<span class="pname">arj</span>,
<span class="pname">gz</span>,
<span class="pname">bz2</span>,
<span class="pname">lzma</span>,
<span class="pname">xz</span>,
<span class="pname">lrzip</span>,
<span class="pname">lzip</span>,
and many kinds of
<span class="pname">exe</span> files, including Microsoft Cabinet archives,
InstallShield archives, and self-extracting <span class="pname">zip</span>
files.
If they have any extra compression, like <span class="pname">tar.bz2</span>
files, <span class="pname">dtrx</span> will take care of that for you,
too.</li>
<li><strong>Keeps everything organized</strong>: <span
class="pname">dtrx</span> will make sure that archives are extracted into
their own dedicated directories.</li>
<li><strong>Sane permissions</strong>: <span class="pname">dtrx</span> makes
sure you can read and write all the files you just extracted, while leaving
the rest of the permissions intact.</li>
<li><strong>Recursive extraction</strong>: <span class="pname">dtrx</span> can
find archives inside the archive and extract those too.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Download</h2>
<p><a href="dtrx-7.1.tar.gz">Download <span class="pname">dtrx</span>
7.1</a>. The SHA1 checksum for this file
is <tt>05cfe705a04a8b84571b0a5647cd2648720791a4</tt>. Improvements in this
release include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Support for LZH archives.</li>
<li>Minor bug fixes in handling recursive extraction and empty
archives.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you would like to try the latest development version—or maybe do some
work on it yourself—you can check out the
project's <a href="http://git-scm.com/">Git</a>
repository. A
<a href="http://gitorious.org/dtrx">web repository</a> is
available, or you can just run:</p>
<pre>$ git clone git://gitorious.org/dtrx/dtrx.git</pre>
<h2>Requirements</h2>
<p>If you have Python 2.4 or greater, this should work out of the box. If
you're stuck on Python 2.3, you can use this if you install
the <a href="http://www.lysator.liu.se/~astrand/popen5/">subprocess
module</a>. You'll need the usual tools for the archive types you want to
extract: for example, if you're extracting <span class="pname">zip</span>
files, you'll need <span class="pname">zipinfo</span>
and <span class="pname">unzip</span>. See the <tt>INSTALL</tt> file included
with <span class="pname">dtrx</span> for a complete list of necessary
utilities.</p>
<h2>Installation</h2>
<p>You can just put <span class="pname">scripts/dtrx</span> wherever is
convenient for you, but if you want to install the program system-wide, you
can also run the following command as root or equivalent:</p>
<pre>python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local</pre>
<p>See the included <tt>INSTALL</tt> file for more information.</p>
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