Ouch!

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ouch stands for Obvious Unified Compression Helper, and works on Linux, Mac OS and Windows.

It is a CLI tool to compress and decompress files that aims on ease of usage.

Usage

Decompressing

Run ouch and pass compressed files as arguments.

```sh

Decompress 'a.zip'

ouch decompress a.zip

Also works with the short version

ouch d a.zip

Decompress multiple files

ouch decompress a.zip b.tar.gz ```

You can redirect the decompression results to a folder with the -o/--output flag.

```sh

Create 'pictures' folder and decompress inside of it

ouch decompress a.zip -o pictures ```

Compressing

Use the compress subcommand.

Accepts multiple files and folders, the last argument shall be the output file.

```sh

Compress four files into 'archive.zip'

ouch compress 1 2 3 4 archive.zip

Also works with the short version

ouch c 1 2 3 4 archive.zip

Compress folder and video into 'videos.tar.gz'

ouch compress videos/ meme.mp4 videos.tar.gz

Compress one file using 4 compression formats

ouch compress file.txt compressed.gz.xz.bz.zst

Compress all the files in current folder

ouch compress * files.zip ```

ouch checks for the extensions of the output file to decide which formats should be used.

Installation

Downloading the latest binary

Download the script with curl and run it.

sh curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ouch-org/ouch/master/install.sh | sh

Or with wget.

sh wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ouch-org/ouch/master/install.sh -O - | sh

The script will download the latest binary and copy it to /usr/bin.

Installing from source code

For compiling, check the wiki guide.

Supported formats

| | .tar | .zip | .bz, .bz2 | .gz | .xz, .lz, .lzma | .zst | |:-------------:|:----:|:----:|:---------:| --- |:---------------:| --- | | Decompression | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | Compression | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |

Note that formats can be chained: - .tar.gz - .tar.xz - .tar.gz.xz - .tar.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.lz.lz.lz.lz.lz.lz.lz.lz.lz.lz.bz.bz.bz.bz.bz.bz.bz - .gz.xz - etc...

Contributing

ouch is 100% made out of voluntary work, any small contribution is welcome!