unp vs XADMaster

unp

Unpacks things. (by mitsuhiko)

Specific Formats Processing Archive

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XADMaster

Objective-C library for archive and file unarchiving and extraction (by MacPaw)

extraction unar unarchiver

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unp		XADMaster
	Project
3	Mentions	2
416	Stars	98
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	5.3
almost 7 years ago	Latest Commit	10 days ago
Python	Language	C
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

unp

Posts with mentions or reviews of unp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-17.

A lifehack for your shell (link in comments)
2 projects | /r/emacs | 17 Jul 2022

I use https://github.com/mitsuhiko/unp for years
How to change fonts in terminal?
2 projects | /r/linux4noobs | 1 Apr 2022

If the download is an archive, you can use the specific tool to extract the contents (e. g. tar), or convenience tools like atool or unp.
BTOP++ is a power resource monitor for Linux
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2021

XADMaster

Posts with mentions or reviews of XADMaster. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-11.

Attempting to re-create / replicate an archive made years ago with an unknown application, which is no longer complete on a file-sharing network
4 projects | /r/compression | 11 Nov 2021

Rar would compress them with plain LZ, there's nothing special for jpegs there. However Winzip has a special codec for jpegs - that could be a problem. https://github.com/MacPaw/XADMaster/tree/master/WinZipJPEG
BTOP++ is a power resource monitor for Linux
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2021

https://github.com/MacPaw/XADMaster
in difference to unp and atool, unar does not depend on other tools to unpack the actual archive

What are some alternatives?

When comparing unp and XADMaster you can also consider the following projects:

Kaitai Struct - Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby

below - A time traveling resource monitor for modern Linux systems

pymorphy2 - Morphological analyzer / inflection engine for Russian and Ukrainian languages.

btop - A monitor of resources

iotop - A top utility for IO

bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

precomp-cpp - Precomp, C++ version - further compress already compressed files

HDiffPatch - a C\C++ library and command-line tools for Diff & Patch between binary files or directories(folder); cross-platform; runs fast; create small delta/differential; support large files and limit memory requires when diff & patch.

bpytop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor