“Convert the AR files in my Downloads folder to TGZ”
Or run it yourself:
filestarcli -i file.ar -c "convert to tgz"
Runs on your computer, so your files stay on it. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. 50 free conversions with the npm install, no account needed.
Can my AI agent convert AR to TGZ?
Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i file.ar -c "convert to tgz" on your computer, so your files stay on it.
AR is a Unix archive file that is purposely used to develop and update static library files for creating .deb packages. Currently, its been replaced by .tar archive file for everything except static libraries.
Unix .TAR file archive compressed with Gnu Zip (.GZIP) compression; uses a TAR archive to bundle the files together and Gzip compression to reduce the file size; commonly used on Unix and Linux systems; originally created as the shorthand version of the compound extension .TAR.GZ.