eza-community / eza-community/eza

feat: Add support for inspecting tar{,?z,bz2} and zip files

Open
#600 4 comments 4 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

type: feature
Dominant language
Rust
Stars
23.3k
Forks
523
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Description

This might be considered out-of-scope for eza, which is totally fine ... but I believe it would be a nice feature to be able to list the contents of tarballs, zip files and similar archive files.

An example of how this could work:

$ eza ${MY_OPTS} -l openvpn3-session-watcher-3.tar.xz
.rw-r-----@ 3,6k user  3 Nov 09:39 -N  openvpn3-session-watcher-3.tar.xz
$ eza ${MY_OPTS} -l session-watcher.tar.xz/
.rw-r-----@  192 user 30 Oct 11:18 -I  Makefile
.rwxr-xr-x@  12k user  3 Nov 09:35 -N  openvpn3-desktop-session-watcher
.rw-r-----@  198 user 30 Oct 11:13 -N  openvpn3-desktop-session-watcher.service
$

Thoughts?

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points to inspect. Clarify the supported archive formats, intended path syntax, and acceptance criteria before implementation.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.