Create, list, and extract archives.
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.
The following archive formats are supported when the required utilities are installed:
- .tar.gz, .tgz require
tar
(optionallypigz
). - .tar.bz2, .tbz require
tar
(optionallypbzip2
). - .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 forarchive
support),unrar
orlsar
andunar
. - .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.
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