Tools for creating, parsing, and scripting archive files.
bats is required for the test suite.
While you technically won't run into an error, these scripts do
expect tar to support Zstandard, which isn't necessarily POSIX standard.
| Executable | Description | Extra Dependencies |
|---|---|---|
| epub | Dumps HTML from an 'epub' e-book archive | bash, zipinfo, unzip, w3m |
| mktar | Archive utility | bash, age* |
| mktar-batch | Archive utility for scripting | bash, age* |
| rmtar | Delete 'tar' archive files | |
| rmzip | Delete 'zip' archive files | |
| tarcat | Unarchive utility for scripting | bash, age* |
| tarls | List files within archive files | bash, age* |
| untar | Unarchive utility | bash, age* |
| zipls | List files within zip archive file(s) |
zipinfo |
All scripts support -h and --help for printing built-in documentation.
All scripts do nothing if no input arguments are given.
*These utilities use a fork of age that supports plaintext passphrases.
See [git.dominic-ricottone.com/age.git].
Per FreeBSD's tar(1):
For maximum portability, scripts that invoke tar should use the bundled- argument format above, should limit themselves to the c, t, and x modes, and the b, f, m, v, and w options.
I have noted that pretty much any viable implementation also supports O (extract to stdout).
That includes BusyBox.
rar, 7z archives