Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your RUN file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert RUN to another file type
To convert RUN scripts to another format, you need Makeself or other Executable software.
Convert a file to RUN
To convert other file formats to the "Linux Installer Package" file type, you need software like Makeself or a similar tool.
About RUN files
A .RUN file is predominantly a Linux self-extracting installer script. Developers frequently use tools like Makeself or custom shell scripts to bundle an executable bash script with a compressed binary archive, allowing complex software to be distributed as a single executable package. This format presents major disadvantages for end-users: it is an opaque, compiled payload that acts as a black box. Blindly executing a .RUN file is a massive security risk, as it can run arbitrary commands with root privileges. Furthermore, these files require terminal access and command-line knowledge to operate properly. Users often need to convert or extract these files to inspect the contents safely without running potentially malicious code. The best conversion targets involve extracting the payload into a .TAR.GZ or ZIP archive, or isolating the plain text into a SH script file. Standard online converters fail to process this format because they cannot execute or parse complex shell logic combined with binary data. The original extraction logic is locked inside the script itself, making it difficult to open without a Linux environment. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible. Other rare uses for .RUN files include Honeywell Flight Management System database updates, Windows executables compressed with UPX, or Time Travel Debugging traces from Microsoft WinDbg.
Convert.Guru analyzes your RUN file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert RUN file to ROW, EXE, MSI, APP, DMG, DEB, RPM, PKG, SH, BAT, CMD or COM, you can use Makeself or similar software from the "Self-extracting installer script" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert JAR, APP, SCR, IPA, COM, AAB, PS1, DMG, VBS, EXE, XAPK or MSI files to RUN, try Makeself or another comparable tool in the "Self-extracting installer script" category.
The RUN Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our RUN converter.