TUI Archiver is a terminal application to list / manage archives.
While it can be used directly from the command line, it has some features making it useful as a helper for TUI file managers like vifm, ranger, joshito and lf.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Fullscreen TUI to browse, view and extract members.
- List archives in the terminal (table or tree).
- Extract members from the command line.
- Preview regular / compressed files on the command line.
- Supports tar.[gz|zst|xz|bz2], zip, rar.
- File preview supports syntax highlighting, markdown and HTML rendering, PDF text extraction.
- File icons, colors, themes.
- Single binary, no dependencies.
- Shell completion.
Website: www.nexus0.net/pub/sw/tuiarchiver
Support: Code Repository
Developer: r.s.u.
License: European Union Public Licence (EUPL) version 1.2
TUI Archiver is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Terminal-Based Archive Managers | |
|---|---|
| DAR | Disk ARchive: Backup directory tree and files |
| tar | A file archiver and archive format developed since the early days of Unix |
| zpaqfranz | Deduplicating archiver with encryption and paranoid-level tests |
| patool | Portable archive file manager |
| 7-Zip | File archiver with a high compression ratio |
| tarlz | Massively parallel combined implementation of tar and lzip |
| TUI Archiver | Terminal application to list / manage archives |
| Simple Archiver | Fairly wide range of features |
| tarnation | Simple, extensible tar backup/restore utility |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
| Alternatives to tar | |
|---|---|
| TUI Archiver | List / manage archives |
| tarlz | Massively parallel combined implementation of tar and lzip |
| tarnation | Simple, extensible tar backup/restore utility |
| patool | Portable archive file manager that focuses on simplicity |
| zpaqfranz | Deduplicating archiver with encryption and paranoid-level tests |
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