deco is a command-line program that, together with the deco-archive package, allows you extract dozens of popular archive file formats. It has a consistent interface ("deco 1.tar.bz2 2.rar 3.zip 4.flac 5.deb") and consistent behavior (never deleting archives after extraction and extracting relative to the current working directory, just verbosely enough, all unless explicitly requested otherwise). It creates an extraction directory if there is more than one file or directory at the archive top level, and it is able to fix strange permissions. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes:
The default archive extractor wrappers have been moved to a separate package, deco-archive; from now on, the deco package only includes the core program. A bug was fixed that caused a temporary directory not to be deleted when creating symbolic links in it failed. The code has been improved.

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