MKEXTUNPACK(8)

NAME
mkextunpack - extracts the contents of a multikext (mkext) archive

SYNOPSIS
mkextunpack [-v] [-d output_directory] mkext_file

DESCRIPTION
The mkextunpack program list the contents of a multikext file, mkext_file, or unarchives the contents into output_directory (which must exist). The -v option causes mkextunpack to print the name if each kext as it finds them.

DIAGNOSTICS
mkextunpack exits with a zero status upon success. Upon failure, it prints an error message and exits with a nonzero status.

SEE ALSO
mkextcache(8)

BUGS
The mkext file format doesn't record the original filenames of the kexts, so mkextunpack has to guess at what they are. It does this by using the value of the CFBundleExecutable property of the kext's info dictionary. (Project Builder sets this to the base name of the kext bundle by default, but the developer can change it.) If that property doesn't exist, the last component of the CFBundleIdentifier is used. Duplicates have an incrementing index appended to the name. Kexts that have no executable or CFBundleIdentifier are named “NameUnknown-n.kext”, where n is a number.