ouch-org/ouch

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Ouch (Obvious Unified Compression Helper) is a Rust command-line tool for compressing and decompressing files and directories across many formats like zip, tar, gz, zst, and 7z. It auto-detects formats from file extensions and offers subcommands for compressing, decompressing, and listing archive contents.

Use cases

• compress files into a zip from the terminal
• decompress a tar.gz without remembering flags
• list contents of an archive with tree formatting
• compress a file with stacked formats like lz4 then zst
• extract archives into a specific directory
• replace multiple compression utilities with one tool

When to choose

• you want a single ergonomic CLI for many compression formats
• you need automatic format detection from extensions
• you want good error messages, shell completions, and an accessibility mode

When to avoid

• you need to create RAR archives (only decompression is supported)
• you need streaming compression for zip or 7z
• you need programmatic library access rather than a CLI

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

compression cli file-system files developer-tools cli windows cross-platform rust archive-management decompression tar zip rust command-line linux macos

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