← Back to tools
View AGENTS.md for ouch
ouch
Painless compression and decompression in the terminal
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