Open an archive, check what's in it, and extract it into a fresh folder. Or zip up files and folders. Local-first, with no accounts, no telemetry, and no network. Written in Rust, with a GUI and a CLI that share the same archive engine.
Drop a ZIP, TAR or TAR.GZ on the window. Filter entries and see their sizes before you extract anything.
Extraction always goes into a new folder. Existing paths are never replaced or quietly renamed.
Package files or a folder in the background. You can cancel, and partial output is cleaned up.
Check an archive's integrity without writing anything to disk.
Enforces limits on entry count, expanded size and path depth. Links, special files and suspicious TAR layouts are rejected.
A compact interface inspired by cassettes. Follows the system appearance, or you can pick one.
A standalone sediment binary with no GUI dependencies. It has --json output for scripts and --trace diagnostics that never record your filenames or file contents.
Optional short commands: eval "$(sediment shell-init)" adds an sdm shortcut. A sed alias is also available, but it hides the system text utility (command sed still reaches it).
# list, verify, extract, create sediment list photos.zip sediment test photos.zip sediment extract photos.zip sediment create backup.zip Documents/ # short form, after shell-init sdm x photos.zip # → photos/
Desktop app: download sediment-0.1.3-macos-arm64.zip from Releases, unzip it, and move sediment.app to Applications.
CLI: download sediment-0.1.3-cli-darwin-arm64.tar.gz, unpack it, and put sediment on your PATH. Each download has a .sha256 checksum file.
# or build from source cargo build --release --locked cargo build --release --locked --no-default-features # CLI only
This is an independently written archive manager built on third-party Rust codec libraries. It isn't a WinRAR clone or a new compression codec.
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