A simple tool to zip and unzip from the command line or from your code.

• Node.js https://nodejs.org

Ziptool can be installed globally: npm install ziptool -g

or locally into your npm project: npm install ziptool --save

• CLI

  Globally installed

  Ziptool can be used directly from the command line to zip/unzip files:

  # Zip file-1.txt and file-2.png into a new zip archive 'zip-archive':
  ziptool --zip file-1.txt file-2.png -o zip-archive.zip
  
  # Extract the files from my-archive.zip into the directory 'my-directory':
  ziptool --unzip my-archive.zip -o zip-archive.zip

  For more information, run the command: ziptool --help

  Locally installed

  If ziptool is installed locally, you need to replace the 'ziptool' command by node node_modules/ziptool/bin/ziptool or by adding scripts into your package.json file:

    "scripts": [
      "ziptool": "ziptool"
    ]

• Code

  Example

  Ziptool's api is also available to use in your Node.js javascript files, simply require it:

  const ziptool = require('ziptool');

  You can also require only the functions you need:

  const {zip} = require('ziptool');

  References

  • VERSION: constant

    /**
     * Current ziptool's version.
     * @const {string}
     */

    Example:

    console.log(ziptool.VERSION); // Will print the package's version you are using

  • zip (src, dest, callback): function

    /**
     * Create a zip archive from one or multiple files.
     * @param {string|Array<string>} src - The pathname(s) of the file(s) to compress.
     * @param {string} dest - The pathname of the zip archive to create.
     * @param {Function} callback - The function called after the zip archive has
     * been created or if an error occured.
     */

    Example:

    zip(['file1.jpg', 'file2.png', 'file4.mp3'], 'idk.zip', (err) => {
      // err is given to the callback as an argument.
      // It is either null (= no error) or an Error instance (= error)
      if (err) throw err;
    });

  • unzip (src, dest, callback): function

    /**
     * Extract a zip archive to a specified location.
     * @param {string} src - The zip archive filepath to be extracted.
     * @param {string} dest - The directory path to extract the zip archive to.
     * @param {Function} callback - The function called after the zip archive has
     * been extracted or if an error occured.
     */

    Example:

    unzip('idk.zip', 'a-directory', (err) => {
      // err is given to the callback as an argument.
      // It is either null (= no error) or an Error instance (= error)
      if (err) throw err;
    });