apport-unpack(1)

✨ apport-unpack(1) — General Commands Manual ✨

Okay bestie, meet apport-unpack 🧚, the tool that takes a messy problem report and splits it into neat little files 💅

🎀 NAME

apport-unpack — extract the fields of a problem report to separate files 🌸

💖 SYNOPSIS

apport-unpack report target-directory

🦋 DESCRIPTION

So a problem report, the kind apport makes when something crashes, is literally just one file full of key/value pairs written in the RFC822 syntax 📄 It's giving organized chaos, ngl.

apport-unpack takes that file apart so the value of every entry gets its very own file, and the key becomes the file name 🗂️ This is lowkey a lifesaver for big binary stuff like core dumps 💀✨

report can be either a path to an existing apport crash report, or - if you want it to read from stdin 🫶

The target-directory has to be either nonexisting or empty, so don't try to shove it into a folder that's already full of stuff 🙈

👑 AUTHOR

apport and the accompanying tools are developed by Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> 🌈

Martin Pitt 🍓 September 09, 2006 🍓 apport-unpack(1) 💜