Archive Management

What it does

Create, extract, or inspect archive files including tarballs, zip files, and compressed archives for backup or file bundling.

Procedure

When this skill is activated, Chalie follows these steps:

1. Use memory to recall any prior archiving preferences or commonly used paths.
2. Ask the user what they need: create an archive, extract an existing one, or list the contents of an archive without extracting.
3. For creating an archive: ask for the source path and desired archive name, then use bash with action execute to run the appropriate command — tar -czf <name>.tar.gz <path> for tarballs or zip -r <name>.zip <path> for zip files.
4. For extracting an archive: ask for the archive path and destination, then use bash with action execute to run tar -xzf <archive> -C <dest> or unzip <archive> -d <dest> depending on the format.
5. For listing contents: use bash with action read to run tar -tzf <archive> | head -50 or unzip -l <archive> | head -50 to show the file listing without extracting.
6. Use bash with action read to run ls -lh <archive> to report the final archive size.
7. Present the result: archive path, size, and number of files included or extracted.

Version

v1 (curated)