garchive(1)

📦 version 1.10.2, in nixos 26.05

💅 garchive — like, the manual page, bestie ✨

okay so before we even start: this is garchive(1) from the gEDA crew, version 1.10.2.20201216, and it's genuinely one of those tiny tools that just does the thing. no drama, no bloat, just vibes and tarballs 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

garchive — create and extract gEDA design archives 🗂️

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

garchive [options] [-o output_file] file ...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so garchive is your little archive bestie for gEDA designs — it either makes an archive or opens one. two modes, that's the whole personality:

  • archive mode — this is where it builds a project archive out of a whole bunch of your project files 🫶
  • extract mode — this is where it pulls the files back out of the archive and drops them straight into the local dir ✨

and like, the default? archive mode. that's the main character energy 🎀

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

  • -f filename — optional, and it only works in archive mode. it reads the list of files to archive from filename instead of from garchiverc. slay, custom file list 💅
  • -v — verbose mode. it will literally tell you what it's doing, no cap 🗣️
  • -e — extract the archive that you specified on the command line. unpacking szn 🦋
  • -a — create an archive. this is the default, so like… you didn't even have to ask 👑
  • -o outfile — optional, archive-mode only. names the output archive file. the output file extension should be .tar.gz. if you don't pass this flag, the output file name is just ProjectArchive.tar.gz. fyi 🍓
  • -h, --help — prints usage info. the "help me help you" button 🙈

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

making an archive called MyArchive.tar.gz (with the files to store listed in garchiverc, iykyk):

garchive -o MyArchive.tar.gz

verbosely creating an archive — this one archives the files listed on the cmd line as well as the ones in garchiverc, which is a whole serve:

garchive -v -o MyArchive.tar.gz README Schematic1.sch
Schematic2.sch Schematic3.sch

extracting an archive, the classic:

garchive -e ProjectArchive.tar.gz

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Stuart Brorson <sdb@cloud9.net> — ty for your service 🫡💜

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

gschem(1) — go check it out bestie, it's the other half of the vibe 🌸

Copyright © 1999-2020 gEDA Contributors. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later. please see the COPYING file included with this program for full details 📜

this is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. and like, there is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law — say it louder for the people in the back, fr fr 😭

lowkey important reminder: -o output extension should be .tar.gz, and if you skip -o entirely you're getting ProjectArchive.tar.gz whether you planned for it or not 💀✨

and that's the whole page!! brought to you by the gEDA Project, dated December 16, 2020 — mwah, take care of your tarballs bestie 🎀💖

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