ohmyzsh/plugins/ua

universalarchive plugin

Lets you compress files by a catchy command ua <format> <files> into various compression formats; namely, <format> could be zip, xz, ..

For example, the command

ua xz *.html

will compress all html files in directory folder into folder.xz.

In more detail: This plug-in defines a function called universalarchive that compresses the files you pass it; it supports a wide variety of compression format.

This way you don't have to know what specific command compresses a file, you just do universalarchive <archive type> <filename> and the function takes care of the rest.

To use it, add universalarchive to the plugins array in your zshrc file:

plugins=(... universalarchive)

Supported file extensions

Extension	Description
7z	7zip file
Z	Z archive (LZW)
bz2	Bzip2 file
gz	Gzip file
lzma	LZMA archive
lzo	LZO archive
rar	WinRAR archive
tar	Tarball
tar.bz2	Tarball with bzip2 compression
tar.gz	Tarball with gzip compression
tar.xz	Tarball with lzma2 compression
tar.zma	Tarball with lzma compression
tbz	Tarball with bzip compression
tbz2	Tarball with bzip2 compression
tgz	Tarball with gzip compression
tlz	Tarball with lzma compression
txz	Tarball with lzma2 compression
xz	LZMA2 archive
zip	Zip archive

See list of archive formats for more information regarding archive formats.