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: deco's core, previously a shell script, has been rewritten in C, decreasing time overhead fivefold. The new extractor wrapper format also makes some of the wrapper shell code much nicer. (For update instructions, see the README file.) This is compatible with BSD make. The documentation was slightly polished.

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