GCAB(1)

✨ GCAB ✨

okay so bestie, gather round 💖 this is gcab, the manual page for the program that creates Microsoft cabinet archives — you know, the .cab files 🎀 it lives in the General Commands Manual section, and it's lowkey the moment.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gcab [OPTION]... CABFILE FILES...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: gcab takes your list of FILES and builds the cabinet file CABFILE out of them. That's it, that's the whole thing. Create the cabinet file CABFILE from the list of FILES. periodt 💅

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -c, --create — create a new cabinet archive ✨
• -x, --extract — extract files from a cabinet archive 📦
• -t, --list — list files of a cabinet archive 👀
• -n, --nopath — create files without pathnames, so no directories tagging along 🚫
• -C, --directory DIR — change or extract to directory DIR 🗂️
• -v, --verbose — verbosely list files processed, i.e. it will yap about everything it touches 🗣️
• -z, --zip — use zip compression 🗜️

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>. iconic behavior fr fr 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• cabextract(1) — program to extract files from Microsoft cabinet (.cab) archives

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and that's the whole page bestie, gcab v1.6, born December 2012, still serving looks 💜 mwah, go make some .cab files 🎀