zarchive(1)

zarchive1

Create and read zstd-compressed file archives

Usage

zarchive input_path [output_path]

Overview

zarchive allows you to create and read file archives in the ZArchive format (.zar).

ZArchive is yet another file archive format. Think of zip, tar, 7z, etc. but with the requirement of allowing random-access reads and supporting compression.

Exit status

The zarchive utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

Examples

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

Releases

2 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 12
  2. 13

Authors

The ZArchive format, library and tool were written by Exzap. The zarchive manual page was written by Andrea Pappacoda ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From zarchive-tools 0.1.2-3 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.