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Easy to use, modern compression/archiver CLI tool #6

Open andywer opened 7 years ago

andywer commented 7 years ago

tar and friends are quite non-intuitive to use. Something like

new-tool compress <files and directories> -o <outfile>
new-tool decompress <file>

would be way nicer than

tar -cvjf <outfile> <files and directories to compress>
tar -xvjf <file>

Using facebook's zstandard compression + tar might be a good idea: https://github.com/albertdb/node-zstandard

One could also make the output nice by using log-update, for example.