# &kde; User's Manual

`ark`

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`ark`

&kde; archiving tool

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## Descrición

&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.

## Opcións

`-d, --dialog`

- Show a dialog for specifying the options for a batch or add operation.

`-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.

## Exemplos

``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.

## Autores

&ark; is currently maintained by &Harald.Hvaal; &Harald.Hvaal.mail; and &Raphael.Kubo.da.Costa; &Raphael.Kubo.da.Costa.mail;.

This man page was first written by &Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail; in 2005 for &kde; 3.4, and was later updated in 2009 by &Raphael.Kubo.da.Costa; &Raphael.Kubo.da.Costa.mail;.