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DSCEXTRACT(1)                          General Commands Manual                         DSCEXTRACT(1)

NAME
       dscextract - extract a single file from a Debian source package

SYNOPSIS
       dscextract [options] dscfile file

DESCRIPTION
       dscextract  reads  a single file from a Debian source package.  The idea is to only look into
       .diff.gz files (source format 1.0) or .debian.tar.gz/bz2 files (source format 3.0) where pos‐
       sible, hence avoiding to unpack large tarballs.  It is most useful for files in  the  debian/
       subdirectory.

       file  is  relative to the first level directory contained in the package, i.e. with the first
       component stripped.

OPTIONS
       -f     "Fast" mode. For source format 1.0, avoid to fall back scanning the .orig.tar.gz  file
              if file was not found in the .diff.gz.  (For 3.0 packages, it is assumed that debian/*
              are exactly the contents of debian.tar.gz/bz2.)

EXIT STATUS
       0      file was extracted.

       1      file was not found in the source package.

       2      An error occurred, like dscfile was not found.

EXAMPLE
       dscextract dds_2.1.1+ddd105-2.dsc debian/watch || test $? = 1

AUTHOR
       dscextract was written by Christoph Berg <myon AT debian.org>.

DEBIAN                                    Debian Utilities                             DSCEXTRACT(1)