It would be wonderful if there would be an human readable option (-H resp. --human-readable ) , something like

type: archive
name: foo.txz
size: 91m
filesize: 19m
files: 4.568

Fixes:

→ ./tarstats.py NONEXISTENT
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/juergen/ghq/github.com/isotopp/tarstats/./tarstats.py", line 188, in tarstats
    stats = tarstat(name)
  File "/home/juergen/ghq/github.com/isotopp/tarstats/./tarstats.py", line 143, in tarstat
    with tarfile.open(filename, "r") as t:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/tarfile.py", line 1613, in open
    return func(name, "r", fileobj, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/tarfile.py", line 1679, in gzopen
    fileobj = GzipFile(name, mode + "b", compresslevel, fileobj)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/gzip.py", line 174, in __init__
    fileobj = self.myfileobj = builtins.open(filename, mode or 'rb')
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'NONEXISTENT'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/juergen/ghq/github.com/isotopp/tarstats/./tarstats.py", line 227, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/juergen/ghq/github.com/isotopp/tarstats/./tarstats.py", line 223, in main
    tarstats(args.tarfile, args.json, args.totals)
  File "/home/juergen/ghq/github.com/isotopp/tarstats/./tarstats.py", line 190, in tarstats
    print(f"Can't read '{name}': {e}", file=sys.stderr)
NameError: name 'sys' is not defined

The size listed currently is the accumulated uncompressed size for each archive.

Further interesting stats are:

• Header + block (alignment) overhead
• Compressed file size (i.e. the analyzed file's size)

The latter is mostly of interest, when more than one archive is processed at once.