One day, Jordan decided he had enough of wasting storage space on files he barely used.
What if a tool existed that could easily crush anything in its path ? And thus came onto the world...
Universal file compression utility, aiming for brute strength (at the cost of time) and ease of use. Made in Lua.
(Currently) available for :
StompMyFiles aims to be :
- Powerful, no matter the cost : StompMyFiles' first aim is to compress files given to it as hard as it can, under the best known method available depending on the file's type.
- Extremely simple to use : You give it a file, it replaces it with its compressed version if possible. There's nothing more to it.
- Lossless : Every single piece of data originally present must be able to be restored from StompMyFiles, with just the compressed file itself.
Note : StompMyFiles focuses so heavily on compression strength that it's pretty CPU and RAM intensive, and may even be slow in a few cases. As such, it may not always be the best fit for your use case.
StompMyFiles can be installed from Arch Linux through the provided PKGBUILD.
Always download the latest version of the PKGBUILD, then use makepkg in its directory.
It will eventually be made available on the AUR once the program is complete enough.
Here are informations which might be useful to you :
StompMyFiles is meant to be installed in /usr/share/stomp-my-files (except smf which goes into /usr/bin).
It depends on :
- Lua 5.4 (5.3 and 5.2 MIGHT work)
- LuaFileSystem
- LuaSocket + LuaSec
- Common tools such as : which, tar, grep, xz
And optionally :
- 7-zip / p7zip : If the system doesn't provide them, StompMyFiles will download them if possible.
- Dolphin Emulator : StompMyFiles uses dolphin-tool to compress Nintendo Wii/GameCube games.
Install the aforementioned dependencies on your system, clone the repository, and run ./smf, assuming you're in the program's directory.
smf [OPTIONS] FILES ...
Available options :
--help: Displays StompMyFiles' help page--verbose: Used for debugging. Makes StompMyFiles more explicit about what it's doing.--version: Reports StompMyFiles' version and shows a small description.
ISO file specific options (if none of these are specified, StompMyFiles will skip them) :
--iso: Tells StompMyFiles to treat ISO files normally.--wii-gc: Tells StompMyFiles to treat ISO files as Wii/GameCube games.
| Tool | Local Download | Compression / Decompression | Used for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7z | ✅ | ✅ | Folders |
| xz | ❌ | ✅ | Default choice for single files |
| dolphin-tool | ❌ | ✅ | Nintendo Wii / GameCube games (requires Dolphin Emulator to be installed) |
| nsz | Planned | Planned | Nintendo Switch games |
| upx | Planned ? | Planned ? | Executables |
| Up-to-date | File(s) | Tool | Original Size | SMF Output | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✅ | First Year of Pre-Engineering | 7z | 579.8 Mo | 431.1 Mo | 74 % |
| ✅ | Second Year of Pre-Engineering | 7z | 1.1 Go | 731.9 Mo | 67 % |
| Up-to-date | Application | Type | Tool | Original Size | SMF Output | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✅ | Celeste | Steam Game (Linux) | 7z | 1.2 Go | 770.6 Mo | 64 % |
| ✅ | Um Jammer Lammy | PlayStation 1 Game | xz | 743.5 Mo | 499.5 Mo | 67 % |
| ✅ | Super Smash Bros. Brawl | Wii Game | dolphin-tool | 8.5 Go | 5.8 Go | 68 % |
| ✅ | Rayman Redemption | Windows Game | 7z | 1.3 Go | 879.8 Mo | 68 % |
| ✅ | Pizza Tower | Steam Game (Windows) | 7z | 256.8 Mo | 185.4 Mo | 72 % |
You can report bugs or suggest features by making an issue, or you can contribute to this program directly by forking it and then sending a pull request.
Any help will be very much appreciated. Thank you.