Command-line tool

ouch

brew/ouch

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Painless compression and decompression for your terminal

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

scoop install ouch
cargo install ouch

macOS

brew install ouch
cargo install ouch

Linux

brew install ouch
cargo install ouch

Decompress a specific file

ouch decompress path/to/archive.tar.xz

Decompress a file to a specific location

ouch decompress path/to/archive.tar.xz --dir path/to/directory

Decompress multiple files

ouch decompress path/to/archive1.tar path/to/archive2.tar.gz ...

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