wpkg --extract | -x and wpkg --vextract | -X
Short Hand
wpkg -x
wpkg -X
| Options | Comments |
|---|---|
| --admindir | Define the administration directory, where the database of the installed packages resides. |
| --debug | Define a set of flags of things to print out for debug purposes. |
| --instdir | Define the installation directory, where the data files are installed on the target. |
| --quiet | Not used. |
| --root | Define the installation root path. |
| --verbose | Display filenames as files get extracted. Equivalent to using the --vextract command line option. |
The --extract and --vextract commands allows you to extract files from the data.tar.gz archive present in a package.
The extract command must be followed by 2 parameters: the name of the package to extract from and the name of a directory where the files being extracted are saved.
By default, the --extract command is quiet. If you extract the files in a directory, then you can use the --verbose option to get the list of files being extracted. The --vextract is a contraction of the --verbose option and --exctract command, it automatically turns on the verbosity of the operation.
The --extract command can be shorten to -x (lower case.) The --vextract command can be shorten to -X (upper case.)
The extraction of files is safe even if the archive includes file names that start with / (i.e. file to be extracted in your root folder) or that include a "..". All the files will always appear under the specified output directory.
Note that only regular files and symbolic links are extracted. Other files are ignored.
NOTE
The --extract command does not give you an option to extract the entire data.tar.gz archive as one file. Instead, use the --fsys-tarfile command for that purpose.
