deal

Ever had to unpack an archive and found yourself googling the flags for tar.gz for the tenth time, only to forget them a moment later? Me too
deal provides one command to handle any archive, so you can finally stop googling "how to unpack X-format"

Dependencies

see flake.nix

Installation

• Prebuilt binaries

• Nix flake

  as profile

  nix profile install github:labi-le/deal

  import the module

  {
    # inputs
    deal.url = "github:labi-le/deal";
    # outputs
    overlay-deal = final: prev: {
      deal = deal.packages.${system}.default;
    };
  
    modules = [
      ({ config, pkgs, ... }: { nixpkgs.overlays = [ overlay-deal ]; })
    ];
  
    # add package
    environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
      deal
    ];
  }

Build from source

see shell.nix for details

• rustc 1.89.0 (29483883e 2025-08-04)
• git
• makefile
• libarchive
• openssl.dev
• pkg-config

git clone https://github.com/labi-le/deal.git
cd deal
make build

Usage

deal https://www.bamsoftware.com/hacks/zipbomb/zbsm.zip
deal https://www.bamsoftware.com/hacks/zipbomb/zbsm.zip -d # create a folder by file name
deal https://www.bamsoftware.com/hacks/zipbomb/zbsm.zip some_dir # create a folder using the conveyed name

# the same applies to local files
deal artifacts-build-local-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip 
deal artifacts-build-local-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip -d 
deal artifacts-build-local-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip some_dir 

Todo

[ ] Add tests