txtract

A CLI to interact with txtar archive files 📂

Project Description

txtar is an incredibly useful tiny archive format, able to trivially store a miniature filesystem in a single plain text file. It particularly shines for storing test cases!

Most of the time a txtar archive is created manually, but what if you already have a directory full of stuff and you want to instead store them in txtar. Or you have a txtar archive that you want to instantly replicate on your filesystem!

That's where txtract comes in 🚀

Installation

Compiled binaries for all supported platforms can be found in the GitHub release. There is also a homebrew tap:

brew install FollowTheProcess/tap/txtract

Quickstart

Recursively zip up the contents of a directory into a single txtar file named yourdirectory.txtar

txtract zip ./yourdirectory

Or go the other way, unzip a txtar file back into your filesystem:

txtract unzip yourdirectory.txtar

Credits

This package was created with copier and the FollowTheProcess/go_copier project template.