UNPAR(1)

📦 version 1.053, in alpine 3.24

💅 UNPAR(1) 💅

okay so real talk, bestie — the manual name is unpar and this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the man pages. it's giving "small but mighty" 🎀 and honestly? we're obsessed.

✨ NAME ✨

unpar — extract files from a Perl archive 🦋

🫶 SYNOPSIS 🫶

unpar [-d dir] [-cfqv] file [files...]

like, you literally just hand it files. one file, five files, a whole stack — it's not picky. 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the whole vibe: unpar scans files for Perl archives, and then it extracts the files contained in those archives. that's it. that's the whole thing. no cap. ✨

literally it goes looking through your files, spots a Perl archive, and unpacks what's inside. main character energy for a utility, honestly. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -c — overwrite existing files. like, if something's already there? it's out. gone. replaced. 🔥
  • -d dir — change directory to dir before extracting files. so you get to pick where the chaos lands. 🎀
  • -f — same as -c. yeah, it's a whole duplicate. it's giving "two nicknames for one friend." nd nobody's mad about it. 💀
  • -q — Shhh! 🤫 quiet mode. unpar stops yapping.
  • -v — print version info and exit. cute lil "who am i" moment, then it dips. 👋

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

par — the other half of this duo, iykyk 🫶

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

This implementation of unpar was written by Tim Gim Yee, tim.gim.yee@gmail.com. absolute icon. 💜

This program is copyright (c) Tim Gim Yee 1999. 📅

This program is free and open software. You may use, modify, distribute, and sell this program (and any modified variants) in any way you wish, provided you do not restrict others from doing the same. periodt. 🌸 like, go off, do whatever, just don't be a gatekeeper about it. that's the one rule. ✨

fr fr bestie, that's the whole page. every flag, every path, every disclaimer. nothing skipped, nothing invented. 🧚

and that's the tea — the footer says perl v5.42.2 and it's dated 2026-02-15, so shoutout to Perl and to that lil timestamp for making this official. 🍓💖

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