Alien::Build::Plugin::Extract::CommandLine

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Updated: 2019-04-22
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NAME

Alien::Build::Plugin::Extract::CommandLine - Plugin to extract an archive using command line tools

VERSION

version 1.67

SYNOPSIS

 use alienfile;
 plugin 'Extract::CommandLine' => (
   format => 'tar.gz',
 );

DESCRIPTION

Note: in most case you will want to use Alien::Build::Plugin::Extract::Negotiate instead. It picks the appropriate Extract plugin based on your platform and environment. In some cases you may need to use this plugin directly instead.

This plugin extracts from an archive in various formats using command line tools.

PROPERTIES

format

Gives a hint as to the expected format.

gzip_cmd

The "gzip" command, if available. "undef" if not available.

bzip2_cmd

The "bzip2" command, if available. "undef" if not available.

xz_cmd

The "xz" command, if available. "undef" if not available.

tar_cmd

The "tar" command, if available. "undef" if not available.

unzip_cmd

The "unzip" command, if available. "undef" if not available.

METHODS

handles

 Alien::Build::Plugin::Extract::CommandLine->handles($ext);
 $plugin->handles($ext);

Returns true if the plugin is able to handle the archive of the given format.

available

 Alien::Build::Plugin::Extract::CommandLine->available($ext);

Returns true if the plugin is available to extract without installing anything new.

AUTHOR

Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

Contributors:

Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)

Roy Storey

Ilya Pavlov

David Mertens (run4flat)

Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg)

Christian Walde (Mithaldu)

Brian Wightman (MidLifeXis)

Zaki Mughal (zmughal)

mohawk (mohawk2, ETJ)

Vikas N Kumar (vikasnkumar)

Flavio Poletti (polettix)

Salvador Fandiño (salva)

Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)

Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)

Kang-min Liu (劉康民, gugod)

Nicholas Shipp (nshp)

Juan Julián Merelo Guervós (JJ)

Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Petr Pisar (ppisar)

Lance Wicks (LANCEW)

Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)

José Joaquín Atria (JJATRIA)

Duke Leto (LETO)

Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)

Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)

Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.