xpld

Simple CLI interface to mholt/archives

Features

• Create: Compress files or directories into an archive.

• Extract: Extract archive contents to a specified directory, with an option to flatten the directory structure.

• Inspect: View archive contents in text, JSON, or tree format.

Usage

Run xpld with one of the following commands:

Create an Archive

Compress files or directories into an archive.

xpld create <source> -o <output>

• <source>: Path to the file or directory to compress.

• -o, --output: Output path for the archive (required).

Example:

xpld create ./my-folder -o output.tar.gz

Extract an Archive

Extract the contents of an archive to a specified directory.

xpld extract <archive> -o <output> [--flatten]

• <archive>: Path to the archive file.

• -o, --output: Output directory for extracted files (required).

• --flatten, -f: Flatten the directory structure during extraction.

Example:

xpld extract archive.tar.gz -o ./output --flatten

Inspect an Archive

View the contents of an archive in different formats.

xpld inspect <archive> [--json | --txt | --tree]

• <archive>: Path to the archive file.

• --json: Output contents in JSON format.

• --txt: Output contents as plain text (default).

• --tree: Output contents in a tree-like format.

Example:

xpld inspect archive.tar.gz --json

Supported Formats

xpld relies on the github.com/mholt/archives package, thus, we support:

• Supported compression formats
  • brotli (.br)
  • bzip2 (.bz2)
  • flate (.zip)
  • gzip (.gz)
  • lz4 (.lz4)
  • lzip (.lz)
  • minlz (.mz)
  • snappy (.sz) and S2 (.s2)
  • xz (.xz)
  • zlib (.zz)
  • zstandard (.zst)
• Supported archive formats:
  • .zip
  • .tar (including any compressed variants like .tar.gz)
  • .rar (RO)
  • .7z (RO)

License

This project is dual-licensed under the ISC License (pre-2007, equivalent to MIT) and the RABRMS License. Choose whichever suits you best.

Dependencies

• github.com/mholt/archives: For archive format handling.

• github.com/urfave/cli/v3: For command-line interface parsing.