A self-extracting archive is useful; it allows you to extract archives without additional software. All you have to do is double-click the archive and it will automatically extract the files within.

In this post I'll show you how to create a self extracting bash script to automate the installation of files on your system. This script requires coreutils (for cat, tail), awk, gzip, tar and bash.

Some zip utility tools can create self-extracting archives for various platforms, such as MS Windows. The utility tool combines a regular zip archive with an extractor program to generate a new ...

Find out more about how we test. PeaZip is a free piece of compression software which is capable of creating self-extracting archives, and it can be used as a portable program without any need for ...

One of the most common forms of ransomware is evolving a new technique in order to become even more effective and harder to detect: the ability to evade detection by cybersecurity tools which use ...

Self-extracting archives (SFX) created with compression software like WinRAR or 7-Zip are essentially executables that contain archived data along with a built-in decompression stub (the code for ...