I would like to run unzip (or even zip) within dired or a dired-like buffer. Is there anything like this? I would like something similar as in the Nautilus file manager: i.e., selecting files and then pressing a keystroke to get these files into a new archive file.
Thank you
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To uncompress a .zip file, you just need to add to the variable 'dired-compress-file-suffixes
(eval-after-load "dired-aux"
'(add-to-list 'dired-compress-file-suffixes
'("\\.zip\\'" ".zip" "unzip")))
Now the Z key in dired will recognize the .zip extension and uncompress a .zip archive. Already supported are gunzip, bunzip2, uncompress and dictunzip.
If you want to mark files and add them to a .zip archive you can use the following to make z bound to zip the set of marked files:
(eval-after-load "dired"
'(define-key dired-mode-map "z" 'dired-zip-files))
(defun dired-zip-files (zip-file)
"Create an archive containing the marked files."
(interactive "sEnter name of zip file: ")
;; create the zip file
(let ((zip-file (if (string-match ".zip$" zip-file) zip-file (concat zip-file ".zip"))))
(shell-command
(concat "zip "
zip-file
" "
(concat-string-list
(mapcar
'(lambda (filename)
(file-name-nondirectory filename))
(dired-get-marked-files))))))
(revert-buffer)
;; remove the mark on all the files "*" to " "
;; (dired-change-marks 42 ?\040)
;; mark zip file
;; (dired-mark-files-regexp (filename-to-regexp zip-file))
)
(defun concat-string-list (list)
"Return a string which is a concatenation of all elements of the list separated by spaces"
(mapconcat '(lambda (obj) (format "%s" obj)) list " "))