The Unarchiver

The Unarchiver

Original author(s)	Dag Ågren
Developer(s)	Circlesoft
Stable release	3.9.1 / October 4, 2013 (2013-10-04)
Operating system	OS X, Linux using GNUstep libraries, and command line only on Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X
Available in	English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean
Type	File Extractor/Decompressor
License	LGPL (free software)
Website	http://unarchiver.c3.cx

The Unarchiver is a free data decompression utility, which supports more formats than Archive Utility (formerly known as BOMArchiveHelper), the built-in archive unpacker program in OS X. It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems. The latest version requires Mac OS X v10.3.9 or higher. The Unarchiver does not compress files. The corresponding command line utilities unar and lsar run on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Supported formats

• Zip
• RAR
• 7z (.7z)
• LHA
• StuffIt (.sit, .sitx)
• Compact Pro (.cpt)
• DiskDoubler (.dd)
• BinHex (.hqx)
• MacBinary (.bin)
• Gzip (.gz)
• Bzip2 (.bz2, .tar.bz2, .tbz2, .tb2)
• Tar
• GNU Tar (.gtar)
• Unix Compress (.z)
• Unix Compress Tar (.taz, .tar-z)
• CAB
• Comic book archive (.cbz, .cbr)
• RPM
• Self-Extracting Archive (.sea, if the format itself is supported)
• Windows Self-Extracting (.exe)
• CPIO
• Pax (.pax)
• HA (.ha)
• Amiga Disk File
• Amiga DMS Disk Archive (.dms)
• Amiga LhF (.f)
• Amiga LZX (.lzx)
• Amiga DCS Disk Archive (.dcs)
• Amiga PackDev Disk Archive (.pkd)
• Amiga xMash Disk Archive (.xms)
• Amiga Zoom Disk Archive (.zom)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Unarchiver.

• The Unarchiver's Website
• Circlesoft Website
• Project page on Google Code
• unar and lsar command line tools