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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.