Sticky

Basic compressed archive tool with a sane syntax for easily working with compressed archives.

Flags

• -e --extract

extract archive to SOURCE/

• -c --compress

compress sources to archive

• -t --target

archive / destination directory name

• -h --help

show help message

• -f --format

archival format (zip tar.gz zstd)

• -l --level

compression level

• -v --verbose

enable verbose output

Usage

• sticky archive.zip

extracts archive.zip to archive/

• sticky archive.zip -t extracted

extracts archive.zip to extracted/

• sticky -e archive.zip -t archive/ -f zip

same as sticky archive.zip

• sticky file1.txt file2.txt file3.md

compresses file1.txt file2.txt file3.md to archive.zip

• sticky file1.txt file2.txt file3.md -t files.tar.gz

compresses file1.txt file2.txt file3.md to files.tar.gz using tar.gz compression

sticky can infer what you want to do via the file extensions of --target and source files, however it will fail if sources contains both compressed archives and uncompressed files. in this case, the -e/-c flags are required to disambiguate

Installation

Cargo

cargo install --git https://github.com/nimrodium/sticky.git

Nix

# in your flake.nix inputs
sticky = {
      url = "github:nimrodium/sticky";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };

# in your systemPackages, make sure you have inputs passed to your configuration.nix or explicitly pass sticky
with pkgs; [ inputs.sticky.packages.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}.default ];

why

i can never remember all the random flags required to extract all the different archive formats, so this is a rust cli tool for extracting archives agnostically sticky because, like, you stick a bunch of files together haphazardly