avfs ☆

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Description:
Virtual file system that facilitates looking inside archives

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 1.2.0@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: System utilities

Tags: filesystem archive fuse virtual-filesystem compression

Install: brew install avfs

About:
AVFS is a virtual filesystem that allows users to access the contents of compressed archives and remote files as if they were regular directories. It mounts archives like ZIP, TAR, RAR, and GZ files into the filesystem, enabling on-the-fly access without requiring explicit extraction. This provides seamless integration with standard command-line tools and file managers for efficient file handling.

Key Features:

Supports numerous archive formats including ZIP, TAR, RAR, GZ, and BZ2
On-the-fly decompression and access without temporary disk usage
FUSE-based integration for seamless OS filesystem mounting
Integration with standard shell tools like ls, cp, and find

Use Cases:

Browsing contents of large compressed archives without extracting them
Accessing files from remote URLs or FTP servers as local files
Integrating archive access into GUI file managers

Alternatives:

archivemount – Similar FUSE-based mounting but typically supports fewer formats than AVFS
fuse-zip – Specialized for ZIP files only, whereas AVFS is a multi-format solution

License: GPL-2.0-only AND LGPL-2.0-only AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND Zlib

Dependencies: bzip2, libfuse@2, xz, zlib

Bottles available for: arm64_linux, x86_64_linux

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Nov 17, 2024 2:04pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	a8277f85