Are there any good command line tools for compressing/decompressing snappy?

Question

I have some snappy files that I'd like to be able to compress/decompress on the command line. I didn't see any obvious tools, is there's something standard that people use for snappy?

Answer 1

Here's a gem that I found long back on the arch forums, before you use it you should have 7zip and unrar or other tools to handle the formats you need to extract.

# File extractor
# usage: extract <file>
extract ()
{
  if [ -f $1 ] ; then
    case $1 in
      *.tar.bz2)   tar xjf $1   ;;
      *.tar.gz)    tar xzf $1   ;;
      *.bz2)       bunzip2 $1   ;;
      *.rar)       unrar x $1     ;;
      *.gz)        gunzip $1    ;;
      *.tar)       tar xf $1    ;;
      *.tbz2)      tar xjf $1   ;;
      *.tgz)       tar xzf $1   ;;
      *.zip)       unzip $1     ;;
      *.Z)         uncompress $1;;
      *.7z)        7z x $1      ;;
      *.snz)       snunzip $1      ;;
      *)           echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via extract()" ;;
    esac
  else
    echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
  fi
}

To use it, you must add this to your .bash_profile or .profile after that is done you can use extract to decompress all sort of archives from the command line. The syntax is extract name-of-archive

You can use it with snappy too, you need to install this however before it'll work.

Answer 2

This is exactly feature request #34 in the issue tracker of Snappy. See the comments of December 3 for a Python command line version available on Github.