file-roller(1) General Commands Manual file-roller(1)
NAME
file-roller - archive manager for GNOME
SYNOPSIS
file-roller [OPTIONS...] [FILE...]
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 ex-
tracting 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 pro-
gram
-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.
AUTHORS
file-roller is written by Paolo Bacchilega <paolo.bacch@tin.it>.
This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the
Debian project (but may be used by others).
SEE ALSO
gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7)
The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.
GNOME 2007-09-27 file-roller(1)
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