Tar2Arx

tar2arx is a command line tool to convert tar archive to arx format.

Arx is a new file archive format.

Install tar2arx

Binaries for Windows, MacOS and Linux are available for every release. You can also install tar2arx using Cargo:

cargo install tar2arx arx

You will need arx to read the archive.

Use tar2arx

Convert a tar archive

Creating an archive is simple :

tar2arx -o foo.arx foo.tar.gz

With feature http (default), you can directly convert a remote tar archive with:

tar2arx -o foo.arg https://example.com/foo.tar.gz

Read arx archive

See the arx documentation for full command.

• List the content of the archive

arx list foo.arx | less

• Extract the archive

arx extract -f foo.arx -C my_out_dir

• Extract only one file

arx dump foo.arx my_directory/path/to/my_file > my_file

• Mounting the archive

On linux and macOs, you can mount the archive using fuse.

mkdir mount_point
arx mount foo.arx mount_point

arx will be running until you unmount mount_point.