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xarchiver - GTK+ front end for archive management

xarchiver [OPTION] [archive]

Xarchiver is a lightweight desktop environment independent GTK+ front end for handling 7z, a (libraries), apk, arj, bzip, bzip2, bzip3, cab, cb7, cbr, cbt, cbz, chm, compress, cpio, docx, epub, exe (self-extracting Windows archives), fbz, gzip, iso, jar, jsonlz4, lha, lrzip, lz4, lzip, lzma, lzop, mozlz4, odt, oxt, rar, rzip, snap, squashfs, tar, xpi, xz, zip, zpaq, zstd, tar.bz, tar.bz2, tar.bz3, tar.gz, tar.lrz, tar.lz, tar.lz4, tar.lzma, tar.lzo, tar.rz, tar.xz, tar.Z, tar.zst and (without their package managers) deb and rpm files.
It recognizes file types by their file signature (magic number), not by their extension, and uses various (de)compressor/(un)archiver command line programs at runtime. It allows to list, test and create archives, add and copy files to them, extract, delete, cut and drag files from them, edit files in them, and paste and drop files into them. Password protected 7z, arj, lrzip, rar and zip archives are supported and will be recognized.

add to archive by asking which files and quit
add the given files by asking the name of the archive and quit
extract archive to a containing directory and quit
extract archive by asking the extraction directory and quit
extract multiple archives by asking the extraction directory and quit
extract archive to the destination directory and quit

show found command-line programs to be used and exit
show version and exit
X display to use

-?, -h, --help
show help options
show GTK+ options
show all help options

Ingo Brückl, (Giuseppe Torelli until 2014)

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December 2023 xarchiver