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ouch

Painless compression and decompression in the terminal

File Management linuxmacoswindows Rust MIT

Description

ouch provides painless compression and decompression in the terminal. It automatically detects formats from file extensions and supports tar, gzip, bzip2, xz, zstd, zip, 7z, and more.

AI Summary

Intuitive compression and decompression tool that auto-detects formats from file extensions

Capabilities

  • + Compress and decompress files automatically
  • + Auto-detect format from file extensions
  • + Support tar, gzip, bzip2, xz, zstd, zip, 7z, and more
  • + Simple, intuitive interface

Use When

  • When compressing or decompressing files and wanting automatic format detection
  • When you want a simpler alternative to remembering tar flags
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