Archive

Create, list, and extract archives.

Commands

• archive creates an archive based on the provided archive name.
• lsarchive lists the contents of one or more archives.
• unarchive extracts the contents of one or more archives.

Supported Formats

The following archive formats are supported when the required utilities are installed:

• .tar.gz, .tgz require tar (optionally pigz).
• .tar.bz2, .tbz require tar (optionally pbzip2).
• .tar.xz, .txz require tar with xz support.
• .tar.zst requires tar with zstd support.
• .tar.lzma, .tlz require tar with lzma support.
• .tar requires tar.
• .gz requires gunzip.
• .bz2 requires bunzip2.
• .xz requires unxz.
• .lzma requires unlzma.
• .Z requires uncompress.
• .zip, .jar requires unzip.
• .rar requires rar (needed for archive support), unrar or lsar and unar.
• .7z requires 7za.
• .deb requires ar, tar.

Additionally, if pigz and/or pbzip2 are installed, archive will use them over their traditional counterparts, gzip and bzip2 respectively, to take full advantage of all available CPU cores for compression.

Provenance

Forked from prezto.