SimpleCompress

A multi-file compression utility for directoies with long paths and many duplicate files

Important This tool does not keep track of file permissions, flags, creation dates or any other meta-data. It will lose execute flags.

Symlinks are supported for directories. If a link target is outside the archive, it will be dereferenced and expanded to a normal file. If the link target is within the archive, it will be restored as a link.

The npm package can be installed as a library, or as a CLI tool "sz" with npm i -g simple-compress.

Usage:
    sz pack <src directory> <target file> [flags]
    sz unpack <src file> <target directory> [flags]

Flags:
    h : (unpack) replace duplicate files with hard links
    x : ( pack ) create an expander script for the archive
    f : ( pack ) never follow symlinks, even if they go outside of the archive
    n : ( both ) don't show progress messages