Unstuff from the commandline

Oct 21, '01 04:40:25PM

Contributed by: Cadre

It's been a personal peeve of mine that Aladdin makes a CLI interface to their product for Linux, but not for the Mac. Here is a quick alias to fix this. It's not perfect (if you aren't logged in, this will have problems), but it works. The command to create the alias is:

alias   unstuff "open -a '/Applications/StuffIt Lite 6.5/StuffIt Expander.app'"
(your path to StuffIt Expander might be different)

Example usage:
% unstuff somearchive.sit

[Editor's note: To make this alias permanent, search here for 'alias' for instructions on creating your own alias file.]

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