Ouch
last updated: Aug 25, 2025
https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch
https://crates.io/crates/ouch
A tool to improve and unify the UI of various compression programs.
ouch decompress <file> will attempt to discover the filetype of file and decompress it, no matter what format it's in, for a large variety of formats.
ouch compress [<file>...] <archive> will compress files, and guess the format you want from the name of the archive you provide.
ouch list <archive> will list the contents
Added to my modern unix tools list. Via @davidcrespo.bsky.social