packy

CLI tool for creating unpacking archives (of the most common types).

It's focused on simplicity such as:

• Auto-detection of archive type.
• Portable binaries for various platforms.
• No external dependencies (other binaries or any dynamic libraries).

But why?

Not gonna lie, the main reasons for this project to start are:

• The frustration coming from usage of tar.
  • Incompatibility between GNU tar and BSD tar. Which means: tar on Linux and macOS differ with archive type support and CLI options. Random failures of your shell scripts across different system are annoying, aren't they?
  • Incompatibility across versions - for example, old versions of tar don't autodetect archive types. So you write you script and then it fails on some ancient Ubuntu version. Ain't fun, huh?
  • Runtime dependencies - support of particular archive types depends on dynamic libraries.
• The urge to rewrite everything in Rust. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Packy aims to solve that by:

• Being cross-platform and providing super easy, one-liner way to get started both on Linux and macOS.
• Supporting as many archive types as possible. Support 100% embedded in packy.
• Static linking, no runtime dependencies, no surprises.
• Being written in Rust!!!111oneone

Installation

Pre-built binary

Download the latest binary from the releases page.

cargo

cargo install packy

Usage

packy [OPTIONS] <INPUT>

Arguments:
  <INPUT>  Path to the archive to packy

Options:
  -o, --output <OUTPUT>
          Directory to unpack the archive into [default: .]
  -s, --strip-components <STRIP_COMPONENTS>
          Strip the specified number of leading components from the archive [default: 0]
  -v, --verbose
          Verbose output
  -h, --help
          Print help
  -V, --version
          Print version

Examples

# Unpack archive.tar.gz into the current directory.
packy archive.tar.gz
# Unpack archive.tar.xz into the directory /tmp/foo.
packy -o /tmp/foo archive.tar.xz
# Unpack archive.tar.bz2 into the directory /tmp/foo, stripping the first component.
packy -o /tmp/foo -s 1 archive.tar.gz