ARK(1) KDE User's Manual ARK(1)NAME
ark - A KDE archiving tool
SYNOPSIS
ark [--extract--extract-to--add--add-to--guess-name] [folder] [files]
[archive] [KDE Generic Options] [Qt Generic Options]
DESCRIPTION
Ark is a program for managing various archive formats within the KDE
environment. Archives can be viewed, extracted, created and modified
from within Ark. The program can handle various formats such as tar,
gzip, bzip2, zip, rar and lha (if appropriate command-line programs are
installed). Ark can work closely with Konqueror in the KDE environment
to handle archives, if you install the Konqueror Integration plugin
available in the kdeaddons package.
OPTIONS--extract
Open extract dialog, quit when finished
--extract-to folder archive
Extract archive to folder. Quit when finished. folder will be
created if it does not exist.
--add files
Ask for the name of the archive to add files to. Quit when fin‐
ished.
--add-to files archive
Add files to archive. Quit when finished. archive will be creat‐
ed if it does not exist.
--guess-name folder archive
Used with --extract-to. When specified, archive will be extract‐
ed to a subfolder of folder whose name will be the name of ar‐
chive without the filename extension.
ENVIRONMENT
$PATH The commandline programs to deal with the archives you wish to
handle in Ark must be available in your $PATH.
EXAMPLES
ark --extract-to --guess-name . An-Archive.tar.bz2
Will extract An-Archive.tar.bz2 into a folder named An-Archive
in the current directory.
ark --add-to *.jpg pictures.tar.bz2
Add all files ending in *.jpg to an archive named pic‐
tures.tar.bz2, creating it if it doesn't already exist.
SEE ALSOtar(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), zip(1), rar(1), lha(1)
More detailed user documentation is available from help:/ark (either
enter this URL into Konqueror, or run khelpcenter help:/ark).
AUTHORS
Ark is maintained by Henrique Pinto <stampede@coltec.ufmg.br>
This man page was written by Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org> for KDE 3.4.
AUTHOR
Lauri Watts.
K Desktop Environment February 25, 2005 ARK(1)