sax
| Crates.io | sax |
| lib.rs | sax |
| version | 0.1.0 |
| created_at | 2026-01-10 20:21:03.977052+00 |
| updated_at | 2026-01-10 20:21:03.977052+00 |
| description | Smart archiving and extracting utility |
| homepage | |
| repository | https://github.com/rahmerh/sax |
| max_upload_size | |
| id | 2034655 |
| size | 27,931 |
(rahmerh)
documentation
README
sax
A simple but smart archiving and extraction tool.
Will automatically detect archive type and extract correctly, you no longer need to google tar flags.
sax is developed for linux only, I have no interest into testing targets I don't personally use, but feel free to contribute.
Installation
On arch
Using an aur helper:
yay -S sax-git
Or install manually
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/sax-git.git
cd sax-git
makepkg -si
Usage
sax input.zip out/
Extracts the contents of input.zip into out/
Todo
- Extracting zip archives
- Extracting tar archives
- Extracting 7z archives
- Extracting rar archives
- Creating archives
- Smart mode (automatically detect best archive for use case)
- Manual mode (provide required format)
- Override options
- AUR packaging