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ARK(1)			       KDE User's Manual			ARK(1)

NAME
       ark - KDE archiving tool

SYNOPSIS
       ark [-b] [-a] [-e] [-c] [-f suffix] [-p] [-t file] [-d] [-o directory]
	   [KDE Generic Options] [Qt™ Generic Options]

DESCRIPTION
       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 in‐
       stalled).

OPERATION MODES
       Ark can be used either as a stand-alone GUI program as well as  a  com‐
       mand-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.

OPTIONS
       -d, --dialog
	      Show  a dialog for specifying the options for a batch or add op‐
	      eration.

       -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 oth‐
	      er 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 sin‐
	      gle folder archive, a subfolder by the name of the archive  will
	      be created.

EXAMPLES
       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  pho‐
	      to1.jpg and text.txt to it.

AUTHORS
       Ark  is	currently  maintained by Harald Hvaal  <haraldhv@stud.ntnu.no>
       and Raphael Kubo da Costa  <kubito@gmail.com>.

       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>.

AUTHORS
       Lauri Watts, Raphael Kubo da Costa.

K Desktop Environment		  2009-09-10				ARK(1)
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