.\" SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Andrea Pappacoda .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: ISC .Dd 2022-08-30 .Dt ZARCHIVE 1 .Os . .Sh NAME .Nm zarchive .Nd create and read zstd-compressed file archives . .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Ar input_path .Op Ar output_path . .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm allows you to create and read file archives in the ZArchive format (.zar). .Pp ZArchive is yet another file archive format. Think of zip, tar, 7z, etc. but with the requirement of allowing random-access reads and supporting compression. .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std . .Sh EXAMPLES .Bd -literal $ zarchive src Outputting to: src.zar Adding main.cpp Adding zarchivereader.cpp Adding zarchivewriter.cpp Adding sha_256.c Adding sha_256.h .Ed . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr zstd 1 . .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit The ZArchive format, library and tool were written by .An Exzap . The .Nm manual page was written by .An Andrea Pappacoda Aq Mt andrea@pappacoda.it .