ancient(1)

✨ ancient(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

🦋 NAME

ancient — decompression routines for ancient formats 🌸

🎀 SYNOPSIS

ancient [identify|verify|decompress|scan] inputfile optionaloutputfile

💅 DESCRIPTION

Okay so this manual page only gives you a quick little overview of the ancient command 🫶

Bestie, ancient is a whole collection of decompression routines for old formats that were super popular on the Amiga, Atari computers, and some other systems from the 80's and 90's 👾 It also covers some formats that are still around today, which got used in a specific way on those old machines ✨ It's giving retro queen energy, no cap 👑

For simple usage, you get both a simple command line app AND a simple API to use the decompressors 💜 The compression algorithm gets auto-detected in most cases, lowkey iconic 😭 BUT, real talk, there are some corner cases where it's not entirely reliable because of weaknesses in the old format 🙈

🌈 OPTIONS

These programs DO NOT follow the usual GNU command line syntax 💀 Not me being dramatic, but it's a whole different vibe, so don't go in expecting --help energy 🙅‍♀️

• identify packed_input_file — Tells you what compression was used on a file 🔍
• verify packed_input_file unpacked_comparison_file — Checks that decompression matches a known good unpacked file ✅
• decompress packed_input_file output_file — Decompresses a single file 📦
• scan input_dir output_dir — Scans the input directory recursively and stores all the found known compressed streams into separate files in the output directory 🧚 It's literally a treasure hunt, obsessed 🍓

🔥 SEE ALSO

unxz(1), unpigz(1) 🫶

Bye bestie, the manual was built on the General Commands Manual 🌸 and ancient(1) was last updated December 25 2020 🎄 Stay iconic, periodt 💖✨