Useful terminal-based archive managers.
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Tag: archive manager
Simple Archiver – alternative to tar
Simple Archiver is an alternative to tar. Despite its name, this open source tool has a fairly wide range of features.
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zpaqfranz – deduplicating archiver with encryption and paranoid-level tests
zpaqfranz is a deduplicating archiver with encryption and paranoid-level tests.
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PeaZip – winrar/winzip alternative
PeaZip is a cross-platform portable file archiver, released under the LGPL. PeaZip supports many different archive and compression formats.
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File Roller – archive manager for GNOME
File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME desktop environment. It performs file compression and archiving functions.
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Engrampa – archive manager utility for MATE Environment
Engrampa is an archive manager utility for the MATE Environment. It’s a fork of Archive Manager (File Roller).
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7-Zip – file archiver with a high compression ratio
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. It operates with the 7z archive format.
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Ark – manage various archive formats
Ark is an archive utility within the KDE environment. Ark manages various archive formats, including tar, gzip, bzip2, lha, rar and zip.
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Xarchiver – front-end to various command line archiving tools
Xarchiver is a program for handling archives on Linux and FreeBSD. Xarchiver is free and open source software.
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Arqiver – simple Qt5 archive manager
Arqiver is a simple Qt5 archive manager as a front-end for libarchive (bsdtar), gzip and 7z. Arqiver is free and open source software.
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tar – create tar archives
Tar is console based software for packaging a set of files as a single archive in tar format. Free and open source software.
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patool – portable archive file manager
Various archive formats can be created, extracted, tested, listed, searched, repacked and compared with patool.
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TUI Archiver – list / manage archives
TUI Archiver is a terminal application to list / manage archives. It’s written in Go and published under an open source license.
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tarnation – backup/restore utility based on tar
tarnation is a simple, extensible tar backup/restore utility. It’s free and open source software written in Bash.
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tarlz – massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor
tarlz is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel WinZip
WinZip is a file archiver and compressor. What are the best free and open source alternatives?
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DarGUI – graphical frontend for DAR
DarGUI is a graphical frontend for the Disk ARchiving utility (DAR) that aims to make it easier and quicker to perform common backup tasks.
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DAR – disk archive software
Disk ARchive (DAR) is a full featured archiver with support for differential backups, slices, compression, ATTR/ACL support.
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