How to work with large number of small files

Mounting Zip-arichives with fuse-zip

# Get a brief help.
$ fuse-zip --help
....

# Mount the archive as a file system.
$ fuse-zip -r archive.zip mountpoint

# Use the data inside
$ ls mountpoint/
$ ... 

# Unmount the archive.
$ fusermount -u mountpoint

From Python

Working with files inside a TAR archive

• tarfile module:

https://www.askpython.com/python-modules/tarfile-module

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27220376/python-read-file-within-tar-archive

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