Binary package “avfs” in ubuntu bionic

virtual filesystem to access archives, disk images, remote locations

 This FUSE-base VFS (Virtual FileSystem) enables all programs to look inside
 archived or compressed files, or access remote files without recompiling the
 programs or changing the kernel.
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 At the moment it supports floppies, tar and gzip files, zip, bzip2, ar and rar
 files, ftp sessions, http, webdav, rsh/rcp, ssh/scp. Quite a few other
 handlers are implemented with the Midnight Commander's external FS.