/rclone_archive_extract

title: "rclone archive extract"
description: "Extract archives from source to destination."
versionIntroduced: v1.72
# autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/archive/extract/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs"

> **Official documentation:** [https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_archive_extract/](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_archive_extract/)

rclone archive extract

Extract archives from source to destination.

Synopsis

Extract the archive contents to a destination directory auto detecting the format. See [rclone archive create](/commands/rclone_archive_create/) for the archive formats supported.

For example on this archive:

$ rclone archive list --long remote:archive.zip
        6 2025-10-30 09:46:23.000000000 file.txt
        0 2025-10-30 09:46:57.000000000 dir/
        4 2025-10-30 09:46:57.000000000 dir/bye.txt

You can run extract like this

$ rclone archive extract remote:archive.zip remote:extracted

Which gives this result

$ rclone tree remote:extracted
/
├── dir
│   └── bye.txt
└── file.txt

The source or destination or both can be local or remote.

Filters can be used to only extract certain files:

$ rclone archive extract archive.zip partial --include "bye.*"
$ rclone tree partial
/
└── dir
    └── bye.txt

The [archive backend](/archive/) can also be used to extract files. It can be used to read only mount archives also but it supports a different set of archive formats to the archive commands.

rclone archive extract [flags] <source> <destination>

Options

  -h, --help   help for extract

See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.

See Also

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• [rclone archive](/commands/rclone_archive/) - Perform an action on an archive.

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