[Feature Request] Ask for archive password for extraction

[Heisenborgar]

Please describe the problem you're trying to solve

Opening an archive file i.e., zip, or rar on Yazi will automatically extract the contents of the archive file. However, if it is password protected, it fails. To circumvent this, I have to use KDE's Ark to open, input the password, and extract the contents.

Would you be willing to contribute this feature?

• Yes, I'll give it a shot

Describe the solution you'd like

Make it so that if the archive file is password protected, it will ask for password input on Yazi itself to extract the archive contents.

Additional context

No response

[sxyazi]

Hi, you can use read -s pass to read the password entered by the user into $pass, and then pass $pass to the unar command, similar to what #51 (comment) did.

I plan to implement compression/decompression as a separate plugin, but haven't found the time, so please use this workaround for now.

[Heisenborgar]

Thanks @sxyazi <3

To anyone who stumbles upon this who wants to extract a password protected archive file in Yazi without using any other apps to do it simply go to .config/yazi/keymap.toml, and add this line of code:

{ on = [ "c", "z" ], exec = """ shell 'printf "Password:"; read -s password; unar -p "$password" "$@"' --block --confirm""" },

To test it, select a password protected archive file (space as default) to highlight, then press c, and z. It should ask you for your password, and if the password is correct, it should extract it.

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