raajeshmenghwar/Archive-Extractor

This simple Python script serves as an archive extractor, allowing users to easily extract contents from various compressed file formats, including Zip, Tar, 7-Zip, and RAR.

Archive Extractor

Overview

This simple Python script serves as an archive extractor, allowing users to easily extract contents from various compressed file formats, including Zip, Tar, 7-Zip, and RAR.

Features

• Supports extraction of Zip, Tar, 7-Zip, and RAR archives.
• User-friendly command-line interface.
• Built-in file type detection using the magic library.

Usage

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/your-repo.git

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd your-repo

3. Run the script:

   python3 archive_extractor.py

4. Follow the on-screen instructions to enter the path of the compressed file you want to extract.

Operating System Compatibility

This project is developed and tested on the Linux operating system. To run it on Windows:

Windows

1. Ensure Python is installed on your system. You can download it here.

2. Open a command prompt and navigate to the project directory.

3. Run the script:

   python archive_extractor.py

4. Make the following changes to the script for Windows compatibility:

   • Replace any Linux-specific paths with Windows paths.
   • Ensure the required libraries (zipfile, tarfile, py7zr, rarfile, magic, os) are installed on your Windows environment.

Linux

Follow the steps mentioned in the previous section for Linux.

Example

[+] Enter the compressed file to extract it (or 'q' to quit): example.zip
[+] example.zip extracted successfully ...