Print the content from all the files in a zip archive.
catzip
Concatenate all the file contents of a zip file. Designed for use with zip
archives of simple, project code.
Options
-h, --help Display this usage guide.
--src zip file ... Zip file(s) to operate on. This is the default argument.
Any extra arguments will be assumed to be zip files. It
works best if these files end with ".zip".
-s, --save Save output to file. This is especially useful when
specifying multiple zip files. Without this option, all of
the content is printed together. With this option, the
output of each zip file is saved to a different text file.
Each text file is named the same as the input file,
except that ".zip" is replaced with ".txt".
Examples
catzip John_Smith.zip # print content to screen
catzip --save A.zip B.zip # print A.zip into A.txt, B.zip -> B.txt
Quirks
This utility was written to aid recruiters in printing and sharing code
written by candidates. It has some quirks specific to that task.
Some files inside the archive will be ignored. For example, it won't print
the content of "package.json".
The files in the archive are expected to be short and contain code. The lines
are numbered for each file on the output.
The name of the archive is printed on the first line, and the name of each
file is printed at the beginning and end of its content. To create stand-alone binaries, we use pkg. This is useful for any recruiters that don't have node installed, and don't want to install it.
npm install
pkg -t node12-macos,node12-linux,node12-win catzip.jspkg makes these stand-alone by building an entire version of node with them. So they are huge. Many people will probably prefer run it from source.