The extract command.
Unpack an archive next to itself — the archive stays.
archive.ziparchive.extract.zip
Works on: zip, tar, tgz, tar.gz, gz · The command disappears once the job is done · Original backed up first
Extraction as a rename: type extract before the archive's extension and the contents appear alongside it, folder structure intact. The archive itself is never deleted — extraction here is strictly additive.
It covers the formats macOS actually meets: zip, tar, tgz, tar.gz and bare gz. Malicious archives whose entries try to escape the destination folder (the classic zip-slip trick) fail cleanly without writing anything.
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