universalarchive plugin

Lets you compress files by a command ua <format> <files>, supporting various compression formats (e.g. 7z, tar.gz, lzma, ...).

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

plugins=(... universalarchive)

Usage

Run ua <format> <files> to compress <files> into an archive file using <format>. For example:

ua xz *.html

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

This plugin saves you from having to remember which command line arguments compress a file.

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

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