1XARCHIVER(1) User Commands XARCHIVER(1)
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6 xarchiver - GTK+ front end for managing archives
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9 xarchiver [OPTION] [archive]
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12 Xarchiver is a lightweight desktop environment independent GTK+ front
13 end for handling 7z, a (libraries), arj, bzip2, compress, cpio, exe
14 (self-extracting Windows archives), gzip, jsonlz4, lha, lrzip, lz4,
15 lzip, lzma, lzop, mozlz4, rar, tar, xz, zip, zstd, tar.bz2, tar.gz,
16 tar.lrz, tar.lz, tar.lz4, tar.lzma, tar.lzop, tar.xz, tar.Z, tar.zst
17 and (without their package managers) deb and rpm files.
18 It detects the file types by their magic header, not by their exten‐
19 sion, and utilizes various (un)compressor/(un)archiver command line
20 programs at runtime. It allows you to list, test and create archives
21 and to add, extract and delete files from them. Password protected ar‐
22 chives are supported and will be recognized.
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25 -a, --add
26 add to archive by asking which files and quit
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28 -c, --compress=file1 ... fileN
29 add the given files by asking the name of the archive and quit
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31 -d, --ensure-directory
32 extract archive to a containing directory and quit
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35 extract archive by asking the extraction directory and quit
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37 -m, --multi-extract
38 extract multiple archives by asking the extraction directory and
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41 -x, --extract-to=destination
42 extract archive to the destination directory and quit
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46 show found command line programs to be used and exit
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49 show version and exit
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51 --display=DISPLAY
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55 -?, -h, --help
56 show help options
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58 --help-gtk
59 show GTK+ options
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61 --help-all
62 show all help options
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65 Written by Giuseppe Torelli and Ingo Brückl.
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68 <https://github.com/ib/xarchiver/issues>
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72xarchiver Jan 2021 XARCHIVER(1)