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+Patool is a portable archive file manager
+
+Various archive types can be created, extracted, tested, listed, compared,
+searched and repacked with patool.
+
+The advantage of patool is its simplicity in handling archive files
+without having to remember a myriad of programs and options.
+
+The archive format is determined by the file(1) program and as a fallback
+by the archive file extension.
+
+patool supports 7z (.7z), ACE (.ace), ADF (.adf), ALZIP (.alz), APE (.ape),
+AR (.a), ARC (.arc), ARJ (.arj), BZIP2 (.bz2), CAB (.cab), COMPRESS (.Z),
+CPIO (.cpio), DEB (.deb), DMS (.dms), FLAC (.flac), GZIP (.gz), LRZIP (.lrz),
+LZH (.lha, .lzh), LZIP (.lz), LZMA (.lzma), LZOP (.lzo), RPM (.rpm),
+RAR (.rar), RZIP (.rz), SHN (.shn), TAR (.tar), XZ (.xz), ZIP (.zip, .jar)
+and ZOO (.zoo) formats. It relies on helper applications to handle those
+archive formats (for example bzip2 for BZIP2 archives).