ohmyzsh/plugins/universalarchive

universalarchive plugin

Lets you compress files by a command ua <format> <files>, supporting various compression formats (e.g. 7z, tar.gz, lzma, ...).

To enable it, add universalarchive to the plugins array in your zshrc file:

plugins=(... universalarchive)

Usage

Run ua <format> <files> to compress <files> into an archive file using <format>. For example:

ua xz *.html

this command will compress all .html files in directory folder into folder.xz.

This plugin saves you from having to remember which command line arguments compress a file.

Supported compression formats

Extension	Description
7z	7zip file
bz2	Bzip2 file
gz	Gzip file
lzma	LZMA archive
lzo	LZO archive
rar	WinRAR archive
tar	Tarball
tbz/tar.bz2	Tarball with bzip2 compression
tgz/tar.gz	Tarball with gzip compression
tlz/tar.lzma	Tarball with lzma compression
txz/tar.xz	Tarball with lzma2 compression
tZ/tar.Z	Tarball with LZW compression
xz	LZMA2 archive
Z	Z archive (LZW)
zip	Zip archive
zst	Zstd archive

See list of archive formats for more information regarding the archive formats.