ranger-archives

This is a plugin for ranger file manager that makes it much easier to compress and extract archives. It depends on archivers/compression programs such as tar, zip, 7z, etc. It also supports and prioritizes parallelized versions of compression programs (like pbzip2, pigz, pixz, etc).

Installation

Clone this repo into ranger plugins folder. In Linux, it is typically located here: ~/.config/ranger/plugins.

cd ~/.config/ranger/plugins
git clone https://github.com/maximtrp/ranger-archives.git

Usage

The following commands are available:

• :extract [DIRECTORY]: extracting files to a current or specified directory (optional).
• :extract_raw [FLAGS]: extracting files with specific flags (optional).
• :extract_to_dirs [FLAGS]: extracting each archive to a separate directory. E.g.: 1.zip to dir 1, 2.zip to dir 2, etc.
• :compress [FLAGS] [FILENAME.EXT]: compressing selected/marked files/directories to an archive. If an archive filename is not specified, it will be named after a parent dir.

Examples

Extraction

Basic

Select an archive and type:

:extract some_dir

Or even just:

:extract

Using flags

This is an example of extracting a zip archive to a directory dirname and escaping all non-ASCII Unicode chars:

:extract_raw -U -d dirname

Compression

Basic

Select a file or a folder (or multiple files and folder) in ranger and enter:

:compress files.zip

or (use quotation marks with filenames containing spaces)

:compress "my important files.zip"

Using flags

zip archiver provides a flag for better compression ratio -9 (just like gzip and many others). We can just add it before an archive filename:

:compress -9 file.zip

The other flags can be used likewise.

Shortcuts

You can also add these lines to ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf to use these keyboard shortcuts (ec, ex):

map ex extract
map ec compress