'\" t .\" Title: \fBark\fR .\" Author: Lauri Watts .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot .\" Date: 2018-08-08 .\" Manual: Ark User's Manual .\" Source: KDE Applications 18.12 .\" Language: English .\" .TH "\FBARK\FR" "1" "2018\-08\-08" "KDE Applications 18.12" "Ark User's Manual" .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * Define some portability stuff .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 .\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html .\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * set default formatting .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" disable hyphenation .nh .\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) .ad l .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .SH "NAME" ark \- KDE archiving tool .SH "SYNOPSIS" .HP \w'\fBark\fR\ 'u \fBark\fR [\fB\-b\fR] [\fB\-a\fR] [\fB\-e\fR] [\fB\-O\fR] [\fB\-c\fR] [\fB\-f\fR\fI suffix\fR] [\fB\-p\fR] [\fB\-t\fR\fI file\fR] [\fB\-d\fR] [\fB\-m\fR] [\fB\-o\fR\fI directory\fR] [KDE\ Frameworks\ Generic\ Options] [Qt(TM)\ Generic\ Options] .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP 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)\&. .SH "OPERATION MODES" .PP 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\&. .PP If invoked without the \-b (\-\-batch) or \-c (\-\-add) options, Ark is started as a normal GUI program\&. .PP 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\&. .PP When the \-c (\-\-add) option is used, Ark prompts for files that should be added to a new archive or to an existing archive\&. .PP .PP .SH "OPTIONS" .PP \fB\-d, \-\-dialog\fR .RS 4 Show a dialog for specifying the options for a batch or add operation\&. .RE .PP \fB\-m, \-\-mimetypes\fR .RS 4 List supported MIME types\&. .RE .PP \fB\-o, \-\-destination \fR\fB\fIdirectory\fR\fR .RS 4 Default the extraction directory to \fIdirectory\fR\&. If not passed, the current path is used\&. .RE .SS "Options for adding files" .PP \fB\-c, \-\-add\fR .RS 4 Query the user for an archive filename and add specified files to it\&. Quit when finished\&. .RE .PP \fB\-t, \-\-add\-to \fR\fB\fIfilename\fR\fR .RS 4 Add the specified files to \fIfilename\fR\&. Create archive if it does not exist\&. Quit when finished\&. .RE .PP \fB\-p, \-\-changetofirstpath\fR .RS 4 Change the current directory to the first entry and add all other entries relative to this one\&. .RE .PP \fB\-f, \-\-autofilename \fR\fB\fIsuffix\fR\fR .RS 4 Automatically choose a filename, with the selected \fIsuffix\fR (for example rar, tar\&.gz, zip or any other supported types)\&. .RE .SS "Options for batch extraction" .PP \fB\-b, \-\-batch\fR .RS 4 Use the batch interface instead of the usual dialog\&. This option is implied if more than one url is specified\&. .RE .PP \fB\-e, \-\-autodestination\fR .RS 4 The destination argument will be set to the path of the first file supplied\&. .RE .PP \fB\-a, \-\-autosubfolder\fR .RS 4 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\&. .RE .PP \fB\-O, \-\-opendestination\fR .RS 4 Open the destination folder when the extraction is complete\&. .RE .SH "SEE ALSO" .RS 4 More detailed user documentation is available from \m[blue]\fBhelp:/ark\fR\m[] (either enter this URL into Konqueror, or run \fB\fBkhelpcenter\fR\fR\fB \fR\fB\fIhelp:/ark\fR\fR)\&. .RE .RS 4 kf6options(7) .RE .RS 4 qt6options(7) .RE .SH "EXAMPLES" .PP \fB\fBark\fR\fR\fB \fR\fB\fB\-\-batch\fR\fR\fB \fR\fB\fIarchive\&.tar\&.bz2\fR\fR .RS 4 Will extract \fIarchive\&.tar\&.bz2\fR into the current directory without showing any GUI\&. .RE .PP \fB\fBark\fR\fR\fB \fR\fB\fB\-b\fR\fR\fB \fR\fB\fB\-d\fR\fR\fB \fR\fB\fIarchive\&.tar\&.bz2\fR\fR\fB \fR\fB\fIarchive2\&.zip\fR\fR .RS 4 Will first show an extraction options dialog and then extract both \fIarchive\&.tar\&.bz2\fR and \fIarchive2\&.zip\fR into the directory chosen in the dialog\&. .RE .PP \fB\fBark\fR\fR\fB \fR\fB\fB\-\-add\-to\fR\fR\fB \fR\fB\fImy\-archive\&.zip\fR\fR\fB \fR\fB\fIphoto1\&.jpg\fR\fR\fB \fR\fB\fItext\&.txt\fR\fR .RS 4 Will create \fImy\-archive\&.zip\fR if does not exist and then add \fIphoto1\&.jpg\fR and \fItext\&.txt\fR to it\&. .RE .SH "MAINTAINERSHIP" .PP Ark is currently maintained by \fBElvis Angelaccio\fR and \fBRagnar Thomsen\fR\&. .SH "AUTHORS" .PP \fBLauri Watts\fR <\&lauri@kde\&.org\&> .RS 4 Initial version of Ark man page in 2005\&. .RE .PP \fBRaphael Kubo da Costa\fR <\&rakuco@FreeBSD\&.org\&> .RS 4 Update of Ark man page in 2009\&. .RE .PP \fBRagnar Thomsen\fR <\&rthomsen6@gmail\&.com\&> .RS 4 Update of Ark man page in 2015 and 2016\&. .RE