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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+# found in the LICENSE file.
+
+# Extracts a single file from a CAB archive.
+
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+if len(sys.argv) != 4:
+  print 'Usage: extract_from_cab.py cab_path archived_file output_dir'
+  sys.exit(1)
+
+[cab_path, archived_file, output_dir] = sys.argv[1:]
+
+# Invoke the Windows expand utility to extract the file.
+level = subprocess.call(['expand', cab_path, '-F:' + archived_file, output_dir])
+if level != 0:
+  sys.exit(level)
+
+# The expand utility preserves the modification date and time of the archived
+# file. Touch the extracted file. This helps build systems that compare the
+# modification times of input and output files to determine whether to do an
+# action.
+os.utime(os.path.join(output_dir, archived_file), None)