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gsf: archiving utility using the G Structured File library

NAME

gsf - archiving utility using the G Structured File library

SYNOPSIS

gsf [OPTION...] SUBCOMMAND ARCHIVE...

DESCRIPTION

This manual page briefly documents the gsf command.

gsf is a simple archive utility, somewhat similar to tar(1). It operates on files following one of the structured file formats understood by the G Structured File library, for example, Microsoft Excel(TM) files.

OPTIONS

Options

-?, --help

Show help options

-v, --version

Display gsf's version

Subcommands

cat

Output one or more files in archive

dump

Dump one or more files in archive as formatted hexadecimal

help

List subcommands

list

List files in archive

props

Archive list of property names

EXAMPLES

To list the content structure of a Microsoft Excel(TM) file arrays.xls:

gsf list arrays.xls

To dump Workbook, an individual data stream in arrays.xls:

gsf dump arrays.xls Workbook

AUTHORS

gsf's primary authors are Morten Welinder <terra [at] gnome.org> and Jody Goldberg <jody [at] gnome.org>.

The initial version of this manpage was written by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen [at] debian.org>.