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raulfraile/distill-cli
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Command line tool to extract files from compressed archives

v0.1(11y ago)418MITPHPPHP >=5.4.0

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distill-cli: Command line tool to extract files from compressed archives
========================================================================

[](#distill-cli-command-line-tool-to-extract-files-from-compressed-archives)

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`distill-cli` is a command line tool to extract files from compressed archives. It relies on the [raulfraile/distill](https://github.com/raulfraile/distill)library to extract files from `bz2`, `gz`, `phar`, `rar`, `tar`, `tar.bz2`, `tar.gz`, `tar.xz`, `7z`, `xz`and `zip` archives.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

### Locally

[](#locally)

Download the [distill-cli.phar](https://github.com/raulfraile/distill-cli/raw/master/bin/distill-cli.phar) file and store it somewhere on your computer.

### Globally (manual)

[](#globally-manual)

You can run these commands to easily access distill-cli from anywhere on your system:

```
$ sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raulfraile/distill-cli/master/bin/distill-cli.phar -O /usr/local/bin/distill-cli

```

or with curl:

```
$ sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raulfraile/distill-cli/master/bin/distill-cli.phar -o /usr/local/bin/distill-cli

```

then:

```
$ sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/distill-cli

```

Then, just run `distill-cli`.

### Globally (Composer)

[](#globally-composer)

To install `distill-cli`, install Composer and issue the following command:

```
$ ./composer.phar global require raulfraile/distill-cli @stable

```

Then, make sure you have ~/.composer/vendor/bin in your PATH, and you're good to go:

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin"

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
$ distill-cli command file [target]

```

Example:

```
$ distill-cli extract archive.tar.gz path/

```

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

- Raul Fraile ([@raulfraile](https://twitter.com/raulfraile))
- [All contributors](https://github.com/raulfraile/distill-cli/contributors)

License
-------

[](#license)

`distill-cli` is released under the MIT License. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.

###  Health Score

23

—

LowBetter than 27% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity48

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4268d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/2bcd01016c2803c00217ef46398e0467893e4c04f5d054ac579d6723568a0677?d=identicon)[raulfraile](/maintainers/raulfraile)

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Top Contributors

[![raulfraile](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/595160?v=4)](https://github.com/raulfraile "raulfraile (17 commits)")

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Tags

pharcompressionzipextractorbzipgziprarbzip27ziptar.gzxztar.xz

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