Tools for creating, parsing, and scripting archive files.
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