CLI Magic: Manage All Your Archives with atool

“The atool package is a collection of Perl scripts that allows
you to handle many different archive formats and compression
schemes using a single command-line interface. Atool uses other
tools behind the scenes to perform the heavy lifting. With atool,
you can handle any archive without having to remember what
command-line tool to use to expand it and which options that
particular tool expects.

“Atool comes with a collection of commands, including aunpack,
apack, als, acat, adiff, and arepack. The tools are all links to
the main atool Perl script, but they perform the actions that their
name suggests–for example, unpacking or creating a new
archive…”

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