file-roller
archive manager for GNOME
Synopsis
file-roller
[OPTIONS...] [FILE...]
add an example, a script, a trick and tips
examples
source
echo $@
|sed 's/\ /\\ /g'
|xargs file-roller
--extract-to=$DIR
source
try file-roller 'unzip -l'
&
;;
"gzip")
try file-roller 'gunzip -l'
&
;;
"tar")
try file-roller 'tar tvf'
&
;;
esac
sleep 3
description
File Roller is
a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and
zip.
It supports
most common operations such as creating, modifing and
extracting files from an archive. You can also view the
contents of an archive and open files contained in the
archive.
options
-a,
--add-to=ARCHIVE
Add files to the specified
archive and quit the program
-d, --add
FILE
Add files asking the name of
the archive and quit the program
-e,
--extract-to=FOLDER
Extract archives to the
specified folder and quit the program
-f,
--extract
Extract archives asking the
destination folder and quit the program
-h,
--extract-here
Extract archives using the
archive name as destination folder and quit the program
--default-dir=FOLDER
Default folder to use for the
’--add’ and
’--extract’ commands
--force
Create destination folder
without asking confirmation
This program
also accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.
see also
gtk-options,
gnome-options
The online
documentation available through the program’s
Help menu.
authors
file-roller
is written by Paolo Bacchilega
<paolo.bacch[:at:]tin[:dot:]it>.
This manual
page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa[:at:]whiz[:dot:]se>, for
the Debian project (but may be used by others).