CLI - Archiving programs

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CLI - Archiving programs #8

Open vinyanalista opened 5 years ago

vinyanalista commented 5 years ago

Linux Kamarada needs archiving programs, so that users can manage archive files (for example, ZIP files) from the command line interface and using shell scripts.

vinyanalista commented 5 years ago

Zip archives can be created with zip and extracted with unzip.

To install those programs:

# zypper in zip unzip

Examples:

Create a zip archive named myfiles.zip containing two files file1 and file2:

$ zip myfiles.zip file1 file2

Create a zip archive named mypics.zip of a directory called pics in your home directory (/home/username/pics):

$ zip -r mypics.zip /home/username/pics/

Extract a zip archive named file.zip to the current folder:

$ unzip file.zip

Extract a zip archive named file.zip to a particular destination directory (/dest/directory/):

$ unzip -d /dest/directory/ file.zip

References:

vinyanalista commented 5 years ago

Tarballs (.tar.gz or .tar.bz2) can be created and extracted with GNU Tar.

To install tar:

# zypper in tar tar-lang

Examples:

Create a .tar.gz archive named myfiles.tar.gz containing two files file1 and file2:

$ tar -czvf myfiles.tar.gz file1 file2

Create a .tar.gz archive named mypics.tar.gz of a directory called pics in your home directory (/home/username/pics):

$ tar -czvf mypics.tar.gz /home/username/pics/

List the contents of a .tar.gz archive named archive.tar.gz:

$ tar -tvf archive.tar.gr

Extract a .tar.gz archive named file.tar.gz to the current folder:

$ tar -xzvf file.tar.gz

Extract a .tar.gz archive named file.tar.gz to a particular destination directory (/dest/directory/):

$ tar -xzvf file.tar.gz -C /dest/directory/

References:

vinyanalista commented 4 years ago

7-Zip archives (.7z) can be created and extracted with p7zip, the port of the command line version of 7-Zip for POSIX systems, including Linux.

To install p7zip:

# zypper in p7zip

Examples:

Create a 7-Zip archive named myfiles.7z containing two files file1 and file2:

$ 7z a myfiles.7z file1 file2

Create a 7-Zip archive named mypics.7z of a directory called pics in your home directory (/home/username/pics):

$ 7z a mypics.7z /home/username/pics/

Extract a 7-Zip archive named file.7z to the current folder:

$ 7z x file.7z

Extract a 7-Zip archive named file.7z to a particular destination directory (/dest/directory/):

$ 7z x -o/dest/directory/ file.7z

Reference:

p7zip - ArchWiki

vinyanalista commented 4 years ago

RAR files can be created with rar and extracted with unrar.

The program unrar can be found in following packages:

unrar_wrapper (OSS repo) - it's a wrapper Python script that transforms unrar commands to unar and lsar calls
unrar (Non-OSS repo) - the freeware (but not free software, libre software) provided by RARLAB

The program rar can be found in the following package:

rar (Packman repo) - trial, provided by RARLAB

Examples:

Create a RAR file named myfiles.rar containing two files file1 and file2:

$ rar a myfiles.rar file1 file2

Create a RAR file named mypics.zip of a directory called pics in your home directory (/home/username/pics):

$ cd /home/username/
$ rar a mypics.rar pics/

Extract a RAR file named file.rar to the current folder:

$ unrar x file.rar

Extract a RAR file named file.rar to a particular destination directory (/dest/directory/):

$ unrar x file.rar /dest/directory/

References:

vinyanalista commented 3 years ago

Linux Kamarada is moving to GitLab. Any updates to this issue are going to be reported on GitLab.