archive-inspector

This is an extension for VsCode which allows you to mount archive files as workspace folders to browse their contents.

Features

• Right click an archive file in the explorer view and select Mount Archive to mount it in your workspace.

Supported archive formats

• .tar
  • .tar.gz
  • .tar.Z
  • .tar.lz
  • .tar.lzma
  • .tar.lzo
  • .tar.zst
  • .tar.xz
  • .tar.bz2
  • .tgz
  • .taz
  • .taZ
  • .tz2
  • .tbz2
  • .tlz
  • .tzst
• .zip

Requirements

This extension relies on GNU tar for archive inspection and extraction.

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• archive-inspector.pathToTar: Path to tar binary.
• archive-inspector.maxStdoutBufferSize: Maximum size of files that will be able to be previewed in editor.

Known Issues

• Opening a tarball containing a directory called . sends the inspector into an infinite loop.

Release Notes

0.1.0

Initial preview release. Supports the .tar format, with or without compression.

0.2.0

Add support for .zip

0.3.0

Support nested archives via temporary files.