Ouch - simple compression and decompression for your terminal

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  • ouch

    Painless compression and decompression in the terminal

  • I use for some time Ouch, It's a CLI tool for compressing and decompressing various formats (at this moment .tar, .zip, .gz, .xz, .lzma, .bz, .bz2, .lz4, .sz, .zst). You can compress, decompress or list archive. It's just one binary application, without dependencies and for my usage is very fast. I don't create a lot of archives, I usually unpack them when I download something from the web and so far I'm very happy with ouch. It has a simple command syntax. I use on my machines with Debian musl version from release page and on Arch there are packages in AUR (to build with cargo or binary version).

  • archiver

    Easily create & extract archives, and compress & decompress files of various formats

  • archiver is also a very cool tool. I think its cli is somewhat similar to this.

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