unsquashfs

NOM

unsquashfs - Decompress and extract a Squash file system

SYNOPSIS

unsquashfs [-v[ersion]]
unsquashfs [-l[s] list filesystem only]
unsquashfs filesystem to_extract [options] [-i[nfo]] [-d[est] target] [-f[force] ]

DESCRIPTION

A squashfs is a compressed read-only file system. Use the unsquashfs program to decompress and extract a Squash file system without mounting it. unsquashfs is able to extract the entire file system or a specific file or directory.
unsquashfs only supports squashfs 3.0 file systems at the moment.

OPTIONS

-v[ersion]
print version, licence and copyright message.
-i[nfo]
print files as they are unsquashed.
-l[s]
list filesystem only, doesn't decompress anything.
-d[est] pathname
decompress to pathname. This default to squashfs-root.
-f[orce]
if file already exists then overwrite.

AUTHORS

Squashfs was written by Phillip Lougher <plougher@users.sourceforge.net>, in Chepstow, Wales, UK. If you like the program, or have any problems, then please email me, as it's nice to get feedback !
This manual page was written by Arnaud Fontaine <arnaud@andesi.org> for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2006 Arnaud Fontaine