How to extract xip archive using command line?

Question

I searched around how to extract XIP archive using command line with no luck so I am leaving my own solution, as a bash function, here.

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Answer 1

On macOS Mojave (not sure about other OS versions), navigate to the directory into which you’d like to expand the contents, then run xip --expand /path/to/xip.xip. For instance:

iMac:Applications jeff$ xip --expand /Users/jeff/Downloads/Xcode_11_Beta.xip