readme.supportedtypes

Bloat is a basic Perl script to allow you to easily decompress files from many formats.

Bloat - Supported Archive Types
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KEY -
[.something]   = file extension(s) recognised
[.something ?] = file extension(s) recognised, but may be nonstandard - if you
                 have any information on it, please get in touch
{something}    = MIME-types recognised, for non-extensioned files; found with
                 `file -i`.

    * 7-Zip files               [.7z]
    * ace files                 [.ace]
    * ar files                  [.a ?]                  {application/x-ar, application/x-archive}
    * arj files                 [.arj]                  {application/x-arj}
    * autopackage files         [.package]              {application/x-autopackage}
    * BZip2 files               [.bz2]                  {application/x-bzip2, application/octet-stream [1]} [2]
    * Compress files            [.Z, .z]                {application/x-compress} [2]
    * Debian packages           [.deb]                  {application/x-ar, application/x-archive} [4]
    * Doom 3 Archives           [.pk4]                  {application/x-zip, application/zip}
    * Enterprise Archives       [.ear]                  {application/x-zip, application/zip}
    * EXE files                 [.exe]                  {application/x-dosexec} [5]
    * GZip files                [.gz]                   {application/x-gzip} [2]
    * Java Archive files        [.jar]                  {application/x-zip, application/zip}
    * LHA archives              [.lzh, .lha]            {application/x-lha}
    * Mozilla Installers        [.xpi]                  {application/x-zip, application/zip}
    * MSCompress files          [.xx_]
    * RAR files                 [.rar]                  {application/x-rar, application/octet-stream [1]}
    * RPM files                 [.rpm]                  {application/x-rpm}
    * Tar files                 [.tar]                  {application/x-gtar, application/x-tar}
    * Tar/BZip2 files           [.tar.bz2, .tbz, .tbz2] {application/x-bzip2, application/octet-stream [1]} [2]
    * Tar/Compress files        [.tar.Z, .taz]          {application/x-compress} [2]
    * Tar/GZip files            [.tar.gz, .tgz]         {application/x-gzip} [2]
    * Unreal/UT mods            [.umod]                 
    * UT2003/4 compressed files [.uz2]
    * Web App Archive           [.war]                  {application/x-zip, application/zip}
    * Webmin modules            [.wbm]                  {n/a} [3]
    * Webmin themes             [.wbt]                  {n/a} [3]
    * Winamp themes             [.wsz]                  {application/x-zip, application/zip}
    * Zip [PKZIP] files         [.zip]                  {application/x-zip, application/zip}
    * Zoo files                 [.zoo]                  {application/x-zoo}

[1] This is what bzip2 files show up as on RedHat 7.2. Further MIME-type 
    detection is carried out in these cases. This is also how RAR and Zoo
    files show up on Slack 9.

[2] In these cases, you may be left with a tar file remaining, as there is no
    current way for bloat to tell whether this contains a tar file or not.

[3] Webmin files can use several different archive methods, so there is no one
    MIME-type to check for.

[4] Note that with Debian files with no extension, it makes sense to create a
    new directory to extract into, as bloat will treat it as a standard ar file.

[5] Note that EXE support is very basic; bloat will attempt to use `unzip` on
    it, which will likely fail. It has been included for completeness.

Last updated - 2004-11-25