How To Extract Archives¶

ScanCode Toolkit provides archive extraction. This command can be used before running a scan over a codebase in order to ensure all archives are extracted. Archives found inside an extracted archive are extracted recursively. Extraction is done in-place in a directory and named '-extract'.

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Usage:¶

./extractcode [OPTIONS] <input>

Extraction example:¶

Extract all archives found in the samples directory:

./extractcode samples