ZARCHIVE(1)

🦋 zarchive — create and read zstd-compressed file archives

okay bestie so this is a General Commands Manual page, meaning zarchive is a lil command-line cutie you run in your terminal. and it's literally so good. let me tell you everything 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

zarchive input_path [output_path]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one required argument, one optional one, slay 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

zarchive lets you create and read file archives in the ZArchive format — you'll see those files with the .zar extension 🎀

so like. ZArchive is yet another file archive format. think of zip, tar, 7z, etc. — you know the drill — but with the requirement of allowing random-access reads and supporting compression ✨

so basically the whole point is: you can jump straight to whatever part of the archive you want, no rewinding through the whole file like it's a VHS tape 💀 and it's compressed too. iconic behaviour, honestly.

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

• exits 0 on success 🫶
• exits >0 if an error occurs 😭

so yeah if you're scripting this, check that exit code, fr fr.

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

here's the moment you've been waiting for, bestie:

$ zarchive src
Outputting to: src.zar
Adding main.cpp
Adding zarchivereader.cpp
Adding zarchivewriter.cpp
Adding sha_256.c
Adding sha_256.h

look at that. you point it at a directory (src) and it tells you where it's going (Outputting to: src.zar) and then lists every single file it's scooping up one by one. the way it just names them all... obsessed 😌✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• zstd(1)

go give that one a read too, it's the compression backbone of this whole situation 🧚

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

the ZArchive format, library and tool were written by Exzap — absolute main character energy 👑

and this zarchive manual page was written by Andrea Pappacoda <tachi@debian.org> 🎀

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okay so that's the whole page!! thanks for coming to my ted talk 🫶

this was the Debian build, dated 2022-08-30, and it's the ZARCHIVE(1) page in case you need to find it again. bye bestie, go archive something 💅✨