Zip2Arx

zip2arx is a command line tool to convert zip archive to arx format.

Arx is a new file archive format.

Install zip2arx

Binaries for Windows, MacOS and Linux are available for every release. You can also install zip2arx using Cargo:

cargo install zip2arx arx

You will need arx to read the archive.

Use zip2arx

Convert a zip archive

Creating an archive is simple :

zip2arx -o foo.arx foo.zip

Read arx archive

See the arx documentation for full command.

• List the content of the archive

arx list foo.arx | less

• Extract the archive

arx extract -f foo.arx -C my_out_dir

• Extract only one file

arx dump foo.arx my_directory/path/to/my_file > my_file

• Mounting the archive

On linux and macOs, you can mount the archive using fuse.

mkdir mount_point
arx mount foo.arx mount_point

arx will be running until you unmount mount_point.