Alternatives to ripunzip
A command-line tool that unzips ZIP files in parallel, including while downloading them from a URL. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
ripunzip
A command-line tool that unzips ZIP files in parallel, including while downloading them from a URL.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as ripunzip.
bsdtar (libarchive)
Command-line archivers built on libarchive that read and write tar, zip, cpio, ISO and more.
bsdtar extracts ZIP and many other formats including rar and ISO from one command, but it does not unzip in parallel or while downloading.
ouch
Command-line tool that compresses and extracts archives without format-specific flags.
ouch handles ZIP along with tar, gzip, xz and zstd from one command on Windows, macOS and Linux, without ripunzip's parallel or streaming extraction.
p7zip
Command-line port of 7-Zip's compression tools for POSIX systems.
p7zip extracts ZIP and 7z files on Linux and macOS from the command line and can also create archives, but it lacks parallel unzipping from a URL.
dtrx
A command-line tool that extracts many archive formats with one consistent command.
dtrx unpacks many archive types with one consistent command and installs with pip, but it relies on underlying extraction tools and does not parallelise ZIP extraction.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
pigz
A parallel implementation of gzip that uses multiple CPU cores to compress data faster.
crabz
A cross-platform command-line tool for fast parallel compression and decompression, similar to pigz but written in Rust.
7-Zip
The small, free archiver that opens practically every archive format and compresses better than ZIP.
