In fact, there's already an archiver named ARC from the BBS days:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_(file_format)

Not only that, there's a historical program called Arc that is also a file archiver/compressor. It led to PKZIP.

Come to think of it, a variant of it is still packaged in Debian, package is called "arc".

Incidentally, for anyone choosing a name, the namecheck program from the Debian devscripts package is handy for checking if a particular name is already in use. Not perfect, but handy anyway.

I think it's a great name.

The author probably has this as a binary living in his PATH so they can just type

    $ arc <args>

It might be obvious, but who wants a long or strange name when you're using a command line utility often.

When the name conflicts with another command line utility?

Phabricator's command-line tool "Arcanist" is called arc:

https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/arca...

I used the arc archiver mentioned by others, back in the 90's if not earlier. I've probably still got archives on a disk somewhere.

And don't forget Arq.

ArcGIS, ArcPy, all sorts of collisions in the GIS namespace.

I'm starting to see this way too often. No one cares.

Sort of agree, but the title made me think of https://www.arqbackup.com

Quite close field to be honest.

Clearly at least one person cares, or he wouldn't have commented about it.

Not that the comment was useful.

But neither was yours.

What does that make yours, then?

Mine was useless too, was it not obvious?

Welcome to the club!