jcompress

All-in-one compression script.

jcompress is a script that wraps around several programs for creating and manipulating archives. jextract, which is included in this, unpacks archives using those same programs.

The purpose of jcompress and jextract is to give a convienent way to do really basic archive operations.

Note

For each program used, not every option is supported by jcompress.

Features

• Copy or move files into an archive
• Encrypt the archive with a password

Supported Formats

• 7zip
• zip
• tar.gz
• tar.bz2
• tar.7z

Install

You can install jcompress with install.sh. You can run install.sh -h for a list of options. It installs files to /usr/local by default. Use the --prefix option to override it.

Scripts are installed in $prefix/bin and manuals in $prefix/man/man1.

install.sh and uninstall.sh call mandb after their respective operations are done. So changes are visible after install.

Dependencies

In order to work properly, the following programs are needed:

• zip
• tar
• 7z
• gpg (jcompress uses this to encrypt tar.gz and tar.bz2 files)

Suggested

• pigz (for (un)compressing *.gz files much faster)
• pbzip2 (for (un)compressing *.bz2 files much faster)

Usage

The most basic usage is to create an archive from one or more files.

jcompress dumbbeetle.zip beetle1 beetle2

Another example is if you want to recurse through subdirectories.

jcompress -r dumbeetle.tar.gz subdir_with_beetles

To view more options, do jcompress -h.