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Section: Ark User's Manual (1)
Updated: 2018-08-08
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NAME
ark - KDE archiving tool
SYNOPSIS
-
ark [-b] [-a] [-e] [-O] [-c] [-f
- suffix
] [-p] [-t
file] [-d] [-m] [-o
directory] [KF5 Generic Options] [Qt(TM) Generic Options]
DESCRIPTION
Ark
is a program for managing various compressed file formats within
KDE. Archives can be viewed, extracted, created and modified with
Ark. The program can handle various formats such as
tar,
gzip,
bzip2,
zip,
rar
(when the appropriate libraries or command-line programs are installed).
OPERATION MODES
Ark
can be used either as a stand-alone
GUI
program as well as a command-line program in order to perform some specific tasks.
If invoked without the -b (--batch) or -c (--add) options,
Ark
is started as a normal
GUI
program.
When the -b (--batch) option is used,
Ark
can be used to extract the contents of one or more files directly from the command-line, without launching its
GUI.
When the -c (--add) option is used,
Ark
prompts for files that should be added to a new archive or to an existing archive.
OPTIONS
-d, --dialog
-
Show a dialog for specifying the options for a batch or add operation.
-m, --mimetypes
-
List supported
MIME
types.
-o, --destination directory
-
Default the extraction directory to
directory. If not passed, the current path is used.
Options for adding files
-c, --add
-
Query the user for an archive filename and add specified files to it. Quit when finished.
-t, --add-to filename
-
Add the specified files to
filename. Create archive if it does not exist. Quit when finished.
-p, --changetofirstpath
-
Change the current directory to the first entry and add all other entries relative to this one.
-f, --autofilename suffix
-
Automatically choose a filename, with the selected
suffix
(for example rar, tar.gz, zip or any other supported types).
Options for batch extraction
-b, --batch
-
Use the batch interface instead of the usual dialog. This option is implied if more than one url is specified.
-e, --autodestination
-
The destination argument will be set to the path of the first file supplied.
-a, --autosubfolder
-
Archive contents will be read, and if detected to not be a single folder archive, a subfolder by the name of the archive will be created.
-O, --opendestination
-
Open the destination folder when the extraction is complete.
SEE ALSO
-
More detailed user documentation is available from m[blue]help:/arkm[]
(either enter this URL into Konqueror, or run
khelpcenter
help:/ark).
-
kf5options(7)
-
qt5options(7)
EXAMPLES
ark --batch archive.tar.bz2
-
Will extract
archive.tar.bz2
into the current directory without showing any
GUI.
ark -b -d archive.tar.bz2 archive2.zip
-
Will first show an extraction options dialog and then extract both
archive.tar.bz2
and
archive2.zip
into the directory chosen in the dialog.
ark --add-to my-archive.zip photo1.jpg text.txt
-
Will create
my-archive.zip
if does not exist and then add
photo1.jpg
and
text.txt
to it.
MAINTAINERSHIP
Ark
is currently maintained by
Elvis Angelaccio
and
Ragnar Thomsen.
AUTHORS
Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org>
-
Initial version of Ark man page in 2005.
Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco@FreeBSD.org>
-
Update of Ark man page in 2009.
Ragnar Thomsen <rthomsen6@gmail.com>
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Update of Ark man page in 2015 and 2016.