Options:
-d --directory
Extracts all files into the given directory
-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 --fix
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 --filter
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.
-h --help
Prints a page of help and exits.
-i --interactive
Prompt whether to overwrite existing files.
-k --keep-symblinks
Follow symlinked files/dirs when extracting.
-l --list
Lists the contents of the given cabinet files, rather than
extracting them.
-L --lowercase
When extracting cabinet files, makes each extracted file's name
lowercase.
-n --no-overwrite
Don't overwrite (skip) existing files.
-p --pipe
Pipes extracted files to standard output.
-q --quiet
When extracting cabinet files, suppresses all messages except
errors and warnings.
-s --single
When testing, listing or extracting cabinets which span multiple
files, only cabinet files given on the command line shall be used.
-t --test
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 --version
If given alone on the command line, prints the version of cab-
extract and exits. Given with a list of cabinet files, it will
list the contents of the cabinet files.
Comments:
CABEXT 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). CABEXT 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 CABEXT as it
will automatically look for the remaining files. To prevent CABEXT
from extracting cabinet files you did not specify, use the -s option.
For more information see:
https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/archiver/cabext/-/tree/master/DOC/CABEXT?
ref_type=heads OR:
https://www.cabextract.org.uk/
Examples:
Extracting files from a cabinet file:
$ cabext wibble.cab
Extracting files from an executable which contains a cabinet file:
$ cabext wibble.exe
[cabext will automatically search executables for embedded
cabinets]
Extracting files from a set of cabinet files; wib01.cab, wib02.cab, ...:
$ cabext wib01.cab
[cabext will automatically get the names of the other files]
Extracting files to a directory of your choice (in this case, 'boogie'):
$ cabext -d boogie wibble.cab
[cabext will create the directory if it does not already exist]
Listing files from a cabinet file:
$ cabext -l wibble.cab
Testing the integrity of a cabinet file, without extracting it:
$ cabext -t wibble.cab
See also:
7zdec
arj
bzip2
gzip
lpq1
lzip
lzma
lzop
p7zip
slicer
tar
unzip
zip
zoo
This manual page was written by Stuart Caie kyzer@cabex-
act.org.uk, based on the one written by Eric Sharkey
sharkey@debian.org, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
Help version 2024 W. Spiegl.
This file is derived from the FreeDOS Spec Command HOWTO.
See the file H2Cpying for copying conditions.