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Sometimes, you have these .pkg installer files on macOS. Today, I needed to extract them to see what's inside. Here's how you can do it:
xar -xf MyInstaller.pkg
If there is a file called Payload in there, you need to unpack it again:
cat Payload | gunzip -dc | cpio -i
Inspiration was found on StackOverflow.
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