I need to get the content of archives and then I want to uncompress the selected one - but I dont want to uncompress the archives to know what's in it. I'd like to list and uncompress at least zip
and rar
, but (if that's possible) I don't want to be limited to only these two.
Can you advise good npm modules or other projects to achieve this?
Here's what I came up with:
zip
I found node-zip can only unzip files, but not list archive content.rar
The best solution seems node-rar, but I can't install it on Windows.Currently I try to get node-uncompress
to list files and hopefully it must never run cross-platform.
Solution:
I am now using 7zip with the node module node-7z
instead of trying to get every archive working on its own. The corresponding site is: https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-7z
This library uses the OS independent archive manager 7zip. On Windows 7za is used. "7za.exe (a = alone) is a standalone version of 7-Zip". I've tested it on Windows and Ubuntu and it works great.
Update:
At Windows: Somehow I just got it working by adding 7za to the Path variables - not by adding 7za.exe to the "the same directory of your package.json file." like the description says.
Update 2:
On Windows 7za, that's referred in the node-7z post, cannot handle .rar
-archives. So I'm using the "casual" 7-zip instead of 7za.exe. I just renamed the commanline 7z.exe
to 7za.exe
and added the 7-zip folder to the Path Variables.