ENGRAMPA(1)

🌸 ENGRAMPA(1) — the archive manager bestie 💖

okay so this is the manual page for engrampa, part of the General Commands Manual crew, and it is lowkey about to become your favorite thing. grab a snack, bestie, we're going in ✨

✨ NAME ✨

Engrampa — Archive Manager for MATE 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

engrampa [OPTIONS...] [FILES...]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So Engrampa is the official archive manager for the MATE Desktop Environment, and it's basically a graphical front-end to archiving utilities like tar and zip. It's a fork of File Roller, if you were wondering where the family resemblance comes from 👑

Engrampa supports most common operations, like creating, modifying and extracting files from an archive. You can also just vibe-check the contents of an archive and open files that live inside it. Iconic behavior, honestly.

This manual page briefly documents the engrampa command. Brief, but thorough. We contain multitudes 💖

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• filename(s)... — tells Engrampa which archive file to open when it starts. If you don't specify one, Engrampa opens with a blank window and you can open an archive from the menu or with the shortcut CTRL+O. no cap 🫶
• -a, --add-to=ARCHIVE — add files to the archive you named, then quit the program. in and out, no small talk 💅
• -d, --add FILE — add files, but it asks you for the name of the archive first, then quits. it's giving "let me confirm real quick" ✨
• -e, --extract-to=FOLDER — extract archives into the folder you specified, then quit the program 📁
• -f, --extract — extract archives, but it asks you where the destination folder should be, then quits 🙈
• -h, --extract-here — extract archives using the archive name itself as the destination folder, then quit. (yes, -h here is extract-here, not help — stay woke, bestie 😭)
• --default-dir=FOLDER — the default folder to use for the --add and --extract commands 🎀
• --force — create the destination folder without asking for confirmation. bold. fearless. main character energy 🔥
• --display=DISPLAY — X display to use 🖥️
• -?, --help — print the standard command line options 📝
• --help-all — print all the command line options. the full lore drop 📚
• --version — show the application's version ⭐

This program also accepts the standard GTK options, so go off, honestly.

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

okay these are the moment, watch:

engrampa -h matelivecd.iso

Extract matelivecd.iso to ./matelivecd in the current working directory 💖

engrampa ./matelivecd/* -a matelivecd.tar.gz

Create a new gzip compressed tarball archive named matelivecd.tar.gz, containing all the files located in the ./matelivecd directory. slay 🔥

engrampa matelivecd.tar.gz

Open matelivecd.tar.gz to view and manipulate its contents. peek inside, rearrange, whatever your heart says 👑

💀 BUGS 💀

Should you encounter any bugs, they may be reported at:

http://github.com/mate-desktop/engrampa/issues

bestie if something's broken, please don't suffer in silence — go tell the devs, they wanna know fr fr 🙏

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Engrampa is written by:

• Paolo Bacchilega <paolo.bacch@tin.it>
• Perberos <perberos@gmail.com>

This Man Page has been updated/re-written for the MATE Desktop Environment by:

• Stefano Karapetsas <stefano@karapetsas.com> (2014)
• Adam Erdman <hekel@archlinux.info> (2014)

🌸 HISTORY 🌸

This manual page was originally written for the Debian Project by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for File Roller. (2007)

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Engrampa documentation can be found from the "Help" menu, or by pressing the F1 key.
• Further information may also be available at: http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/docs

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this was brought to you by the MATE Desktop Environment, dated 1 February 2014 — go forth and archive responsibly, you've got this ✨🎀🦋