distill-cli is a command line tool to extract files from compressed archives. It relies on the raulfraile/distill library to extract files from bz2, gz, phar, rar, tar, tar.bz2, tar.gz, tar.xz, 7z, xz and zip archives.

Download the distill-cli.phar file and store it somewhere on your computer.

You can run these commands to easily access distill-cli from anywhere on your system:

$ sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raulfraile/distill-cli/master/bin/distill-cli.phar -O /usr/local/bin/distill-cli

or with curl:

$ sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raulfraile/distill-cli/master/bin/distill-cli.phar -o /usr/local/bin/distill-cli

then:

$ sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/distill-cli

Then, just run distill-cli.

To install distill-cli, install Composer and issue the following command:

$ ./composer.phar global require raulfraile/distill-cli @stable

Then, make sure you have ~/.composer/vendor/bin in your PATH, and you're good to go:

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin"

$ distill-cli command file [target]

Example:

$ distill-cli extract archive.tar.gz path/

• Raul Fraile (@raulfraile)
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distill-cli is released under the MIT License. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.