Portable Network Archive

PNA (Portable Network Archive) is a highly scalable archive format that can be compressed, encrypted, and split. Also, its data structure is inspired by the PNG data structure.

Installation

Via Shell (Prebuilt Binary)

On Linux or macOS

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf 'https://github.com/ChanTsune/Portable-Network-Archive/releases/latest/download/portable-network-archive-installer.sh' | sh

On Windows

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/ChanTsune/Portable-Network-Archive/releases/latest/download/portable-network-archive-installer.ps1 | iex"

Via Cargo

cargo install portable-network-archive

From Source (via Cargo)

cargo install --git https://github.com/ChanTsune/Portable-Network-Archive.git portable-network-archive

Usage

PNA-native style

pna create -f archive.pna file1.txt file2.txt
pna extract -f archive.pna
pna list -f archive.pna

tar-like style

If you prefer tar-like syntax, a bsdtar-compatible interface is available:

pna compat bsdtar -cf archive.pna file1.txt file2.txt
pna compat bsdtar -xf archive.pna
pna compat bsdtar -tf archive.pna

Both styles produce PNA-format archives. Note that compat bsdtar preserves permissions, ownership, and timestamps by default (matching bsdtar behavior), while PNA-native commands require explicit flags to preserve them.

For more commands and options:

pna --help

License

This project is licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this project by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.