XPI-UNPACK(1)

📦 version 0.54.2, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy

✨ NAME ✨

xpi-unpack — bestie, this is the little tool that unpacks an XPI file into a directory 💖 it's giving "unzip but make it Mozilla".

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

xpi-unpack <input_XPI_file> <output_directory>

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so, the xpi-unpack manual page (this one right here, in the General Commands Manual section, iykyk) is all about unpacking a XPI file into the output directory you specify. And here's the iconic part: it takes into consideration JAR files, because those are usually shipped inside XPI files, and it unpacks them too — all so they can be distributed through the repositories. Then those unpacked JAR files get packed back up during the build process, which happens when the xpi-pack script is called. full circle moment, honestly 🔄

It ships as a part of the mozilla-devscripts package. You, the developer, are the main character here: it should be called by you when the XPI file needs to be unpacked during packaging. periodt 💅

ngl, the original description sentence literally opens with xpi-pack unpacks a XPI file — that's the source text, bestie, we don't edit it, we just ✨observe✨ it.

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

None. Literally none. Zero. Nada. The vibe check came back empty 🫶

🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

None either. She doesn't read the environment, she just unpacks 😌

💜 EXAMPLE 💜

xpi-unpack ubufox.xpi ubufox

Unpacks the contents of ubufox.xpi to directory ubufox. slay 🎀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

  • xpi-pack

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

xpi-unpack was written by Alexander Sack <asac@ubuntu.com> and Sasa Bodiroza <jazzva@gmail.com>, and this manual page was written by Sasa Bodiroza <jazzva@gmail.com>.

Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. 🔥

k bye, that's the whole page — it's General Commands Manual energy, dated 13 August 2009, and it lives in the mozilla-devscripts package 🧚💖

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