Patool provides a unified command line interface for a plethora of archivers. It supports the following archive formats natively:

• TAR (.tar, .cbt)

• BZIP2 (.bz2)

• GZIP (.gz)

• ZIP (zip, .jar, .cbz).

The archive formats below are also supported as long as the corresponding compressor or archiver commands are available:

• 7z (.7z, .cb7)

• ACE (.ace, .cba)

• ADF (.adf)

• ALZIP (.alz)

• APE (.ape)

• AR (.a)

• ARC (.arc)

• ARJ (.arj)

• CAB (.cab)

• COMPRESS (.Z)

• CPIO (.cpio)

• DEB (.deb)

• DMS (.dms)

• FLAC (.flac)

• GZIP (.gz)

• ISO (.iso)

• LRZIP (.lrz)

• LZH (.lha, .lzh)

• LZIP (.lz)

• LZMA (.lzma)

• LZOP (.lzo)

• RPM (.rpm)

• RAR (.rar, .cbr)

• RZIP (.rz)

• SHN (.shn)

• TAR (.tar, .cbt)

• XZ (.xz)

• ZOO (.zoo).