---
name: "smpq"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "smpq"
version: "1.6-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/smpq"
---

# smpq(1)

StormLib MPQ archiving utility, version 1.6

## SYNOPSIS

**smpq** *\[action\] \[options\] \[archive\] \[files\]*

## NAME

SMPQ - StormLib MPQ archiving utility, version 1.6

## Action

- **-c, --create**

  Create new archive with file(s)

- **-a, --append, --add**

  Append file(s) to archive

- **-d, -r, --delete, --remove**

  Remove file(s) from archive

- **-R, --rename**

  Rename file in archive

- **-l, --list**

  List file(s) of archive

- **-e, -x, --extract**

  Extract file(s) from archive

- **-i, --info**

  Show info about archive

- **-h, -u, --help, --usage**

  Show this help/usage information

- **-V, --license, --version**

  Show version license information

## Options

- **-L, --listfile \<file\>**

  Additional external listfile (not used when appending file)

- **-n, --no-system-listfiles**

  Do not load system listfile(s) (not used when appending file)

- **-N, --no-archive-listfile**

  Do not use/create archive listfile (file names will not be read/stored)

- **-A, --no-attributes**

  Do not allow using file attributes (time, checksum, hash)

- **-M, --mpq-version \<version\>**

  Specify MPQ archive version: (default: use new version 4)

  1  support up to 4GB size of archive

  2  support greater then 4GB size of archive (Introduced in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade)

  3  (Introduced in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Beta)

  4  (Introduced in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm)

- **-S, --sector-crc**

  Store/Check CRC for each sector, ignored if file has none compression or is single unit

- **-q, --quiet**

  Be quiet, do not show any output

- **-f, -o, --force, --overwrite**

  Enable overwrite file(s)

- **-v, --verbose**

  Enable verbose output

- **-O, --locale \<id\>**

  Set locale id (default: neutral=0)

  For all locale id see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms912047(WinEmbedded.10).aspx

## Options for appending file(s) to archive

- **-m, --max-file-count \<count\>**

  Set maximum file count of archive (power of 2, 0 - autodetect) (default: 0)

- **-E, --encrypt**

  Store as encrypted

- **-F, --fix-key**

  Encryption key will be adjusted according to file size in the archive (need -E)

- **-D, --deletion-marker**

  Set deletion marker

- **-U, --single-unit**

  Add file as single unit, cannot be encrypted

- **-C, --compression \<method\>**

  Compression method: (default: ZLIB)

  none                   None compression

  IMPLODE                Pkware Data Compression IMPLODE method - OBSOLETE (It was used only in Diablo I)

  PKWARE                 Pkware Data compression

  HUFFMANN               Huffmann compression (Introduced in Starcraft I)

  ADPCM\_MONO             IMA ADPCM compression for 1-channel (mono) WAVE files - Lossy compression, only for WAVE files (Now it is not used)

  ADPCM\_STEREO           IMA ADPCM compression for 2-channel (stereo) WAVE files - Lossy compression, only for WAVE files (Now it is not used)

  ZLIB                   ZLIB compression (Introduced in Warcraft III)

  BZIP2                  BZIP2 compression (Introduced in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade)

  SPARSE                 SPARSE compression (Introduced in Starcraft II)

  LZMA                   LZMA compression (Introduced in Starcraft II)

  HUFFMANN+ADPCM\_MONO    Together Huffmann and IMA ADPCM compression for 1-channel (mono) WAVE files

  HUFFMANN+ADPCM\_STEREO  Together Huffmann and IMA ADPCM compression for 2-channel (stereo) WAVE files

  ZLIB+PKWARE            Together ZLIB and Pkware Data compression

  BZIP2+PKWARE           Together BZIP2 and Pkware Data compression

  SPARSE+ZLIB            Together SPARSE and ZLIB compression

  SPARSE+PKWARE          Together SPARSE and Pkware Data compression

  SPARSE+BZIP2           Together SPARSE and BZIP2 compression

  SPARSE+ZLIB+PKWARE     Together SPARSE, ZLIB and Pkware Data compression

  SPARSE+BZIP2+PKWARE    Together SPARSE, BZIP2 and Pkware Data compression

## Options for extracting file(s) from archive

- **-P, --partial**

  Archive is partial (default: autodetect) (Partial archives were used by trial version of World of Warcraft)

- **-X, --not-encrypted**

  Archive is not encrypted (default: autodetect) (Encrypted archives have Starcraft II installation)

- **-p**

  Open more (patched) archives with directory prefix (prefix:archive), when file is in more archives, will be extracted from last

## Usage with more (patched) archives

smpq -l\|-x \[options\] \[archive\] -p \[prefix1:archive1\] \[prefix2:archive2\] ... -- \[files\]

## Examples

- **Create empty archive \`archive.mpq'**

  smpq -c archive.mpq

- **Create archive \`archive.mpq' with two files \`file1.txt' and \`file2.txt'**

  smpq -c archive.mpq file1.txt file2.txt

- **Extract all files from archive \`archive.mpq' to current directory**

  smpq -x archive.mpq

- **Extract files with extension .txt from archive \`archive.mpq'**

  smpq -x archive.mpq '\*.txt'

- **Show information about archive \`archive.mpq'**

  smpq -i archive.mpq

## AUTHOR

SMPQ is written by Pali Rohár \<pali.rohar@gmail.com\>

## LICENSE

SMPQ is distributed under GNU GPL v3