]> Lauri Watts &Lauri.Watts.mail; February 25, 2005 Trinity Desktop Environment &kappname; 1 ark A &kde; archiving tool ark --extract --extract-to --add --add-to --guess-name folder files archive KDE Generic Options Qt Generic Options &kappname; is a program for managing various archive formats within the &kde; environment. Archives can be viewed, extracted, created and modified from within &kappname;. The program can handle various formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, rar and lha (if appropriate command-line programs are installed). &kappname; can work closely with &konqueror; in the &kde; environment to handle archives, if you install the &konqueror; Integration plugin available in the tdeaddons package. --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 finished. --add-to files archive Add files to archive. Quit when finished. archive will be created if it does not exist. --guess-name folder archive Used with --extract-to. When specified, archive will be extracted to a subfolder of folder whose name will be the name of archive without the filename extension. $PATH The commandline programs to deal with the archives you wish to handle in &kappname; must be available in your $PATH. 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 pictures.tar.bz2, creating it if it doesn't already exist. tar(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), lzip(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). &ark; is maintained by HenriquePinto stampede@coltec.ufmg.br This man page was written by &Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail; for &kde; 3.4.