'\" t .\" Title: \fBark\fR .\" Author: Lauri Watts .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.75.2 .\" Date: 2009-09-10 .\" Manual: KDE User's Manual .\" Source: K Desktop Environment 2.13 (KDE 4.3.1) .\" Language: English .\" .TH "\FBARK\FR" "1" "2009\-09\-10" "K Desktop Environment 2.13 (KD" "KDE 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\-c\fR] [\fB\-f\fR\fI suffix\fR] [\fB\-p\fR] [\fB\-t\fR\fI file\fR] [\fB\-d\fR] [\fB\-o\fR\fI directory\fR] [KDE\ 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\-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 \fBb, \-\-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 .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 "AUTHORS" .PP Ark is currently maintained by Harald Hvaal haraldhv@stud\&.ntnu\&.no and Raphael Kubo da Costa kubito@gmail\&.com\&. .PP This man page was first written by Lauri Watts lauri@kde\&.org in 2005 for KDE 3\&.4, and was later updated in 2009 by Raphael Kubo da Costa kubito@gmail\&.com\&. .SH "AUTHORS" .PP \fBLauri Watts\fR <\&lauri@kde\&.org\&> .RS 4 Author. .RE .PP \fBRaphael Kubo da Costa\fR <\&kubito@gmail\&.com\&> .RS 4 Author. .RE