sax

A simple but smart archiving and extraction tool.

Will automatically detect archive type and extract correctly, you no longer need to google tar flags.

sax is developed for linux only, I have no interest into testing targets I don't personally use, but feel free to contribute.

Installation

On arch

Using an aur helper:

yay -S sax-git

Or install manually

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/sax-git.git
cd sax-git
makepkg -si

Usage

sax input.zip out/

Extracts the contents of input.zip into out/

Todo

• Extracting zip archives
• Extracting tar archives
• Extracting 7z archives
• Extracting rar archives
• Creating archives
  • Smart mode (automatically detect best archive for use case)
  • Manual mode (provide required format)
  • Override options
• AUR packaging