Ouch is an awesome CLI tool for compressing and decompressing for various formats.

Written in Rust, btw…

The Ouch main feature is automatically extension detection. When compressing, it will automatically detect the file extension. And when decompressing, it will automatically detect the archive format.

# Decompress
ouch decompress a.zip
ouch decompress a.zip b.tar.gz c.tar

# Compress
ouch compress one.txt two.txt archive.zip
ouch compress file.txt file.txt.lz4.zst

I’m alsovery proud to be a past maintainer and contributor, being responsible for following additions:

My contributions