archive.yazi

A Yazi plugin that compresses selected files to an archive. This plugin is only available on Unix platforms at the moment since it relies on sh.

Supported file types

Extention	Command
.zip	zip -r
.7z	7z a
.rar	rar a
.tar.gz	tar czf
.tar.bz2	tar cjf
.tar.xz	tar cJf
.tar	tar cpf

Install

git clone https://github.com/KKV9/archive.yazi.git ~/.config/yazi/plugins/archive.yazi

Usage

• Add this to your keymap.toml:

[manager]
prepend_keymap = [
  { on = [
    "c",
    "a",
  ], run = "plugin archive", desc = "Create archive with selected files" },
]

• Select files or folders to add, then press c a to display the prompt.
• Type a name for a new or existing archive.
• The file extention must match one of the supported filetype extentions.
• Tar overwrites an existing archive with newly selected files when overwriting.
• Other archive formats add newly selected files to an existing archive when overwriting.