EXTRACT COMMAND

The extract form extracts a streamable archive. The hash arguments are optional, but if used provide a convenient way to verify the integrity of the archive during extraction.

--hash-type hash-type

Set the hash type for verification. One of: MD5 SHA1 SHA224 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512

The default is SHA256.

--hash-size hash-size-in-bytes

Hash the archive's contents over each given byte-sized interval and verify those hashes as the archive is streamed.

Disabled if 0 or not specified, otherwise requires --hashes-file. Verify the entire file using a single hash if the string full is given as the hash size.

--hashes-file hashes-file

Path to UTF8-encoded file containing the hashes, in order and one line per hash value, of each chunk.

input-path

Path to streamable archive to extract.

output-path

Path of directory to create into which the contents of the archive will be extracted. The past must not already exist.