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To update or switch versions, run webi arc@stable (or @v3.5, @beta, etc).

Files

These are the files / directories that are created and/or modified with this install:

~/.config/envman/PATH.env
~/.local/bin/arc

Cheat Sheet

Archiver (arc) is a powerful and flexible library meets an elegant CLI in this generic replacement for several platform-specific or format-specific archive utilities.

Much like MacOS Finder and Windows Explorer, the default behavior of arc is to create a top-level directory if one does not exist.

List

# arc ls <archive file>
arc ls   example.zip

Unarchive (whole)

# arc unarchive <archive file>
arc unarchive   example.zip

Extract (partial)

# arc extract <archive file> <archived path> <extracted path>
arc extract   example.zip    example/foo     ~/Downloads/foo

Archive (recursive)

# arc archive <archive file> <files or folders ...>
arc archive   example.zip    ./README.md ./bin ./src

Compress (single file)

# arc compress <single file> <format>
arc compress   ./example.tar xz

Decompress (single file)

# arc decompress <archive file>
arc decompress   ./example.tar.xz

Supported extensions

These are the support compression formats, archive formats, and tar file and other extensions.