#archive

Unpack .zip files from the terminal — the format Windows and macOS send you every day.

Pack files or a folder into a .zip that opens anywhere — Windows, macOS, phones.

Unzip files into a specific folder and see exactly what was extracted.

Peek into a .tar.gz to check what's inside before extracting hundreds of files.

Encrypt an archive from Terminal before emailing or uploading it.

Unpack a gzipped tar archive straight into any target directory using tar -xzf with -C.

Pack directories with tar -czf while skipping logs, dependencies and cache directories using --exclude.

Open .rar and .7z files from the terminal with 7-Zip.

Create or update a .zip from any files or folder contents straight from PowerShell.

Unzip archives from PowerShell, including into a non-existent destination that gets created.

Compress a directory and skip junk files in the same command.

Windows 10/11 bundle bsdtar, so tar -czf and tar -xzf work natively in cmd and PowerShell — including .zip files.