[SOLVED]handy compress function similar to extract in Core Utilities?

penguin · 2011-02-09 15:04:14

Hi!
I was wondering if there is a similar, easy, compress-function to be added to .basrc, like the the extract function at:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Core_Utilities

Would be cool to just write:

 compress archive.tar.gz [files]

 compress archive.zip [files]

Maybe I should learn some bash scripting?

Last edited by penguin (2011-02-24 17:12:26)

litemotiv · 2011-02-09 15:05:45

Ehh, gzip?

Inxsible · 2011-02-09 15:20:07

or tar or zip or rar or p7zip or bzip2

falconindy · 2011-02-09 15:24:45

compress is a real thing. It uses LZW compression.

But really, use tar with a bzip/gzip/xz filter.

karol · 2011-02-09 15:41:48

I use

alias tg='bsdtar cfz "${1%%/}.tar.gz" "${1%%/}/"'
alias tx='bsdtar cfJ "${1%%/}.tar.xz" "${1%%/}/"'

to compress a folder.

thayer · 2011-02-09 15:55:34

# roll - archive wrapper
# usage: roll <foo.ext> ./foo ./bar
roll()
{
  FILE=$1
  case $FILE in
    *.tar.bz2) shift && tar cjf $FILE $* ;;
    *.tar.gz) shift && tar czf $FILE $* ;;
    *.tgz) shift && tar czf $FILE $* ;;
    *.zip) shift && zip $FILE $* ;;
    *.rar) shift && rar $FILE $* ;;
    *) echo "'$1' is not a valid archive type"
  esac
}

anonymous_user · 2011-02-09 19:19:17

I just use apack for compressing files and aunpack for extracting them. These tools are part of atool.

penguin · 2011-02-10 09:57:51

thayer wrote:

# roll - archive wrapper
# usage: roll <foo.ext> ./foo ./bar
roll()
{
  FILE=$1
  case $FILE in
    *.tar.bz2) shift && tar cjf $FILE $* ;;
    *.tar.gz) shift && tar czf $FILE $* ;;
    *.tgz) shift && tar czf $FILE $* ;;
    *.zip) shift && zip $FILE $* ;;
    *.rar) shift && rar $FILE $* ;;
    *) echo "'$1' is not a valid archive type"
  esac
}

Yes, this was what I had in mind, thanks, I'll try it out.

falconindy wrote:

compress is a real thing. It uses LZW compression.

Oh, yes, you're quite right, I did not think of that.

alterecco · 2011-02-22 06:50:42

atool

Cdh · 2011-02-22 09:46:59

atool seems to be cool. I think I'll use it too now.
To the posts above: The idea is that you don't need to know how to create different archives. You just write the extension and the program magically does what you want:

       To create a zip archive of two files `foo' and `bar':
            apack myarchive.zip foo bar

I really like this behaviour in imagemagick's convert.
You have some picture in any format and want to create an eps but don't want to look up how to create it?

convert image.extension image.eps

... and it magically works.

ffmpeg works the same way.

penguin · 2011-02-23 16:52:34

Wow, this is exactly what I was looking for + some nice image and sound equivalent tips. Thanks!

Last edited by penguin (2011-02-23 16:53:10)

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[SOLVED]handy compress function similar to extract in Core Utilities?

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