https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article96/bsdtar en a blog about Debian and self-hosting Wed, 06 Mar 2013 01:29:00 +0000 PluXml https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article96/bsdtar/#c1362533399-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article96/bsdtar/#c1362533399-1 I also prefer atool, mostly for its additional commands like adiff, als and acat. (I though still miss "agrep". ;-) But there's also "unp" (short for unpack) which probably has the best balance between a short and an easy to remember command name. It also includes "ucat" which works similar to acat. I seldom have dtrx installed on Debian, because it pulls in quite some megabytes of RPM stuff as hard dependency I usually don't need. The p7zip-full package in Debian also supports a bunch of archive formats, but most 7z tools have not so common command line interfaces. Wed, 06 Mar 2013 01:29:00 +0000 Axel https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article96/bsdtar/#c1361489926-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article96/bsdtar/#c1361489926-1 I use dtrx, as it prevents issues with extracting archives with no parent directory (usually .zip). Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:38:00 +0000 laurentb https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article96/bsdtar/#c1361466153-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article96/bsdtar/#c1361466153-1 @suggestion joe : Yes, apack is good too, while bsdtar and bsdcpio are more useful to people which, like me, are addicted to tar or cpio's interface. It is worth noting, however, that contrary to atool which uses unrar and only has partial support or RAR archives, bsdtar/bsdcpio uses libarchive which provides a full support for them, imported from the Unarchiver. Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:02:00 +0000 Tanguy https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article96/bsdtar/#c1361451409-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article96/bsdtar/#c1361451409-1 I just use atool and don't even think about formats any more. Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:56:00 +0000 suggestion joe