CLI Magic: Manage all your archives with atool

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 5, 2008 7:11 AM EDT
Linux.com; By Ben Martin
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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.

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