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[Request] dtrx #3381

Closed LukeShortCloud closed 1 week ago

LukeShortCloud commented 1 week ago

Package:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dtrx

Purpose:

dtrx helps take the guess work out of extracting archives. You can run dtrx $archive and it'll determine the format. Then it'll automatically use the correct tool(s) to extract it. This works with simple archives such as .zip (unzip) and even less obvious ones like .deb (ar) and .rpm (cpio) packages.

Benefits:

For new Linux users or even seasoned Linux users who can't be bothered to learn every single tool for the job, this helps them handle archived and/or compressed files very easily.

Building:

makepkg

Copyright:

GPL v3.0

Expected Interest:

Many

Already available?

No

Unique request?

Yes

Banned package?

No

More information:

It's a small and simple package that only takes a few seconds to build and package.

xiota commented 1 week ago

bsdtar has most of the functionality and already included with Arch. 7z also can extract a lot of formats without further examination.

LukeShortCloud commented 1 week ago

bsdtar only works with tape archives. It errors out on anything else. However, I tested 7z and it handled everything I threw at it: ar, cab, cpio, dmg, rar, compressed tars, and zip. I knew 7z supported many formats and I didn't realize it was all this. Thanks for the hint! I'll go ahead and close this out.