NAME¶

innoextract - tool to extract installers created by Inno Setup

SYNOPSIS¶

innoextract [-behlLqstv] [-ccolor] [-pprogress] installers ...

DESCRIPTION¶

innoextract is a tool that can extract installer executables created by Inno Setup. innoextract will extract files from a installers specified on the command line. To extract a multi-part installer with external data files, only the executable (.exe) file needs to be given as an argument to innoextract.

OPTIONS¶

-c --color [enable]

By default innoextract will try to detect if the terminal supports shell escape codes and enable or disable color output accordingly. Pass 1 or true to --color to force color output. Pass 0 or false to never output color codes.

--dump

Don't convert Windows paths to UNIX paths and don't substitute variables in paths.

-e --extract

Extract all files to the current directory. This is the default action. You may only specify one of --extract , --list and --test

-h --help

Show a list of the supported options.

--language [lang]

Extract only language-independent files and files for the given language. By default all files are extracted.

--license

Show license information.

-l --list

List files contained in the installer but don't extract anything. You may only specify one of --extract , --list and --test

-L --lowercase

Convert filenames stored in the installer to lower-case before extracting.

-p --progress [enable]

By default innoextract will try to detect if the terminal supports shell escape codes and enable or disable progress bar output accordingly. Pass 1 or true to --progress to force progress bar output. Pass 0 or false to never show a progress bar.

-q --quiet

Less verbose output.

-s --silent

Don't output anything except errors and warnings.

-t --test

Test archive integrity but don't write any output files. You may only specify one of --extract , --list and --test

-v --version

Show the innoextract version number and supported Inno Setup versions.

LIMITATIONS¶

innoextract currently only supports extracting all the data. There is no support for extracting individual files, components or languages. Included scripts and checks are not executed. Data is always extracted to the current directory and the mapping from Inno Setup variables like the application directory to subdirectories is hard-coded. innoextract does not check if an installer includes multiple files with the same name and will continually overwrite the destination file when extracting. Names for data files in multi-file installers must follow the standard naming scheme. Encrypted installers are not supported.

SEE ALSO¶

cabextract(1), unshield(1)

BUGS¶

No known bugs.

AUTHOR¶

Daniel Scharrer (daniel@constexpr.org)