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 # XWIM
-
 Do What I Mean Extractor
+
+![https://xkcd.com/1168/](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tar.png)
+
+Continuing the emacs tradition of "Do What I Mean" tools, dtrx is a replacement
+for the excellent, but unfortunately unmaintained,
+[dtrx](https://github.com/brettcs/dtrx). `xwim` is a command line tool that
+targets two problems with archives:
+
+- Command line tools for extracting archives are often archaic and differ
+  considerably between formats
+- Inconsiderately packaged archives tend to spill their content over the
+  directory they are extracted to
+
+# Usage
+Invoking `xwim` is as simple as:
+
+```shell
+xim archive.tar.gz
+```
+
+This will extract the archive `archive.tar.gz` to the current folder. If the
+archive contains a single root folder named like the archive, it is just
+extracted as is. Otherwise `xwim` first creates a folder named after the archive
+and extracts the contents there.
+
+# Examples
+
+## Single root folder named after the archive
+
+```
+archive.tar.gz
+|
+-- archive/
+    |
+    -- file.txt
+    |
+    -- file2.txt
+```
+
+`xwim` will just extract the archive to the current directory.
+
+## Multiple files/folders in archive root
+
+```
+archive.tar.gz
+|
+-- archive/
+|    |
+|    -- file.txt
+| 
+-- file2.txt
+```
+
+`xwim` will create a folder `archive` in the current directory and extract the
+archive contents there.
+
+# Supported formats
+`xwim` is indifferent to the actual extraction backend. However, currently only
+[libarchive](https://libarchive.org/) is supported. `xwim` supports most formats
+supported by `libarchive`:
+
+- 7-zip: 7z, 7zip
+- zip: jar, zip 
+- bzip2: bz2, bzip2
+- gzip: gz, gzip
+- xzip: xz
+- rar: rar
+- tar with compression: tgz, tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar.xz