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I made a little tool to unzip archives in a sane way (github.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by myxi@toast.ooo to c/programming@programming.dev

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I like trying out new things quite frequently and often times these tools are packed in an archive file. But I'm in constant fear whenever I am to unpack those archives because sometimes there are hundreds of files and the person who packed them wouldn't even do the bare minimum of nesting them inside a directory.

Dolphin (file explorer) had a useful thing where it would detect whether the contents are already nested and if they are not only then it would nest them inside a directory. I tried searching for something similar for the CLI but couldn't find anything so here it is. Another benefit is that it supports .zip, .tar.xz, .tar.gz simultaneously so I don't need to deal with manpages of unzip, tar thousand times just because I keep forgetting how to use them. Now it's just vert x file.zip.

I can add support for a few more formats but I don't feel the need at least for now (PRs welcome).

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[–] myxi@toast.ooo 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

UPDATE: Implemented VERT_USE_EXTERNAL_TOOLS environment variable. See #Configuration.

I had passed the filter parameter as "data", which should help prevent most issues with it but yes I agree that it would've been better to use external tools to do the heavy-lifting. I avoided them to make the program cross-platform and easier to setup (you currently can just run a simple pip command to install it). I may introduce them as optional backends later with a warning on the default ones but for now I'm postponing it.