unace(1)

🌸 unace — the manual, but make it cute 🌸

okay bestie, buckle up, because we're talking about unace from the unace manual 💅 this whole page is the vibe check on unace(1), no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

unace — extract, test and view ACE archives 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

unace <command> [-<sw1> ...] <archive> [<base_dir>\]
[<files>/@<filelist>]

like, that's the whole shape of it. a command, some switches if you're feeling spicy, the archive, and then optionally a base dir and some files (or an @filelist, iykyk) 💖

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so unace is the utility you reach for when you wanna extract, test, or just peek at the contents of archives that were made with the ACE archiver ✨ that's it, that's the job, and she does it gorgeously.

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✨ COMMANDS ✨

these are your mains, your main character commands 👑

• e — extract files 🫶
• l — list archive 📋
• t — test archive integrity (vibe check the archive, fr fr) 🧪
• v — list archive, but verbose (she's giving detail, she's giving receipts) 🔍
• x — extract files with the full path 🌈

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✨ SWITCHES ✨

the little modifiers, the accessories to your outfit 🎀 remember, a [-] means you can turn it off too, bestie.

• c[-] — show comments (default +, so yes she's showing them by default 💬)
• f[-] — full path matching (default -, so off unless you say otherwise)
• h — display this help and then exit. iconic. farewell. 💀
• o[-] — overwrite files (default -, so not overwriting unless you ask)
• p<pass> — set the password 🔐 (pass is your password, keep it secret, keep it safe)
• y[-] — assume yes on all queries (default -, so she's not just saying yes to everything by default 🙈)
• x<files/@list> — exclude files, or files in list, from the process 🚫

lowkey important: those bracketed [-] forms mean the switch can be negated. and those defaults? they're the defaults. don't come for me, I'm just the messenger 👑

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

go hang out with the other archive girlies:

• gzip(1)
• bzip2(1)
• zip(1)
• arj(1)
• ppmd(1)

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✨ AUTHORS ✨

this manual page was written by Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> and revised by Fabian Greffrath <fabian@debian-unofficial.org> for the Debian project — but bestie, it may be used by others 💖 so go off.

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okay that's the whole page, periodt 💅 this was version 2.50, dated 2005-12-05, and it's the unace(1) manual. she ate and left no crumbs 🌸🦋✨