> It gives you the actual paths extracted, to be printed with --verbose. What do you mean? I don't see how to print the first `($dir || name)`. ~~~ $ sqlite3 --verbose test.sqlar -Axn sqlite3: Error: unknown option: -verbose Use -help for a list of options. ~~~ How to run the SQL commands in an sqlite3 session without using `-Ax`. I tried the following. But no files are written. ~~~ $ sqlite3 test.sqlar SQLite version 3.35.5 2021-04-19 18:32:05 Enter ".help" for usage hints. sqlite> SELECT ($dir || name), writefile(($dir || name), sqlar_uncompress(data, sz), mode, mtime) FROM sqlar WHERE (1) AND (data IS NULL OR $dirOnly = 0); sqlite> ~~~