file-roller(1)

💖 file-roller — the manual page bestie version 💖

okay so you opened file-roller(1) from the General Commands Manual section and honestly? you're about to have a great time. this is the glow-up of that page. same facts, better vibes. no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

file-roller — it's the archive manager for GNOME, and it's literally the main character of "i have a .tar.gz and i need it to be not that" 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

file-roller [OPTIONS...]  [FILE...]

like, options first if you want, files whenever, the vibes are flexible 🦋

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

File Roller is a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip. it's giving "the nice window that handles the scary command line stuff for you." 😌✨

it supports most common operations, bestie. we're talking creating, modifing (yes that's the word on the page, we keep it fr fr) and extracting files from an archive. and that's not even it — you can also view the contents of an archive and open files contained in the archive. obsessed. 🔥

👑 OPTIONS 👑

one bullet per flag, no skips, no cuts, all of it. 🌈

• -a, --add-to=ARCHIVE — add files to the archive you name right there in ARCHIVE, 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 the program. interactive queen behavior. 🙈
• -e, --extract-to=FOLDER — extract archives into the FOLDER you specify, then quit the program. boom, done. 🎁
• -f, --extract — extract archives, but it asks you for the destination folder, then quits the program. ✨
• -h, --extract-here — extract archives using the archive name itself as the destination folder, then quits the program. chaotic efficient. 🌀
• --default-dir=FOLDER — the default folder to use for the --add and --extract commands. set it and forget it, bestie. 📁
• --force — create the destination folder without asking for confirmation. no pop-up, no "are you sure", just go. ⚡

also: this program accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options too. those ones live in their own manpages (see SEE ALSO, i got you 🫶).

💜 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). shoutout, iconic. 🌟

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

• gtk-options(7)
• gnome-options(7)
• the online documentation available through the program's Help menu 📖

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 no details were harmed in the making of this rewrite — every flag, every default, every author, every SEE ALSO stayed exactly where it belongs.

sign-off: this is from the GNOME manual, dated 2007-09-27 — an elder icon that still serves 💖✨👑