deco is a generic archive file extractor that has a consistent command line interface ("deco 1.tar.bz2 2.zip 3.flac 4.rar 5.deb" will just work) and consistent behavior (it never deletes archives after extraction, extracts relative to the current working directory, and extracts just verbosely enough, all unless explicitly requested otherwise). It provides automatic handling of extractor gotchas by creating an extraction directory if there is more than one file or directory at the archive top level and by being able to fix strange permissions. Dozens of archive file extensions are supported out of the box, and adding support for others requires very little work. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes:
A slash is now appended when printing directory names even if stdout isn't a terminal, making reuse of deco's output in scripts more convenient. The EXTRACTORS variable in config.mk has been formatted to be easier to read and modify. Error messages have become more consistent. Over 20 lines of code were removed.

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