umahmood / Tarball

Tarball a plugin for fman which allows you create and extract tar files.

Tarball

Tarball is plug-in for fman which allows you to create and extract tar files. With this plug-in you can create and extract .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and .tar.lzma files.

Create:

Extract:

Installation

On your OS from a terminal window, go to fman's plug-in folder:

Windows:

$ cd %APPDATA%\fman\Plugins

Mac:

$ cd ~/Library/Application Support/fman/Plugins

Linux:

$ cd ~/.config/fman/Plugins

Clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/umahmood/Tarball.git

Usage

Create tar file:

1. Select desired files
2. Press Shift + x
3. Enter a file name (with extension *.tar or .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 or .tar.lzma)

Note: when prompted for a filename the extension is important. It determines the type of tar file which gets created, entering myfile.tar.gz will create a tar file with gzip compression.

Extract tar file:

1. Select tar file
2. Press Shift + x

tar file will be extracted under the current directory.

License

See the LICENSE file for license rights and limitations (MIT).