XARCHIVER(1)

🦋 XARCHIVER(1) — the girl's guide to the archive queen 🦋

okay so first things first: this is the xarchiver page from the User Commands manual, and bestie, it's so much. buckle up 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

xarchiver — literally a GTK+ front end for archive management. that's the whole vibe. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xarchiver [OPTION] [archive]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So Xarchiver is a lightweight, desktop environment independent GTK+ front end for handling so many formats. like, the way this list goes on — obsessed. it handles:

7z, a (libraries), aab, apk, AppImage, 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 then — plot twist — it also handles deb and rpm files, but without their package managers. iykyk 🫶

ngl the smartest part: it recognizes file types by their file signature (magic number), not by their extension. main character behavior honestly. it uses various (de)compressor/(un)archiver command line programs at runtime. 👑

and what can it actually do? it allows you to:

• list archives
• test archives
• create archives
• add files to them
• copy files to them
• extract them
• delete files from them
• cut files from them
• drag files from them
• edit files in them
• paste files into them
• drop files into them

like, it does it all, fr fr. ✨

and password protected 7z, arj, lrzip, rar and zip archives are supported and will be recognized 💜

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

• -a, --add — add to archive, but first it asks you which files, then it quits
• -c, --compress=file1 ... fileN — add the given files, but first it asks you for the name of the archive, then it quits
• -d, --ensure-directory — extract archive to a containing directory and quit
• -e, --extract — extract archive, but first it asks you for the extraction directory, then it quits
• -m, --multi-extract — extract multiple archives, asking you for the extraction directory, then quits
• -x, --extract-to=destination — extract archive to the destination directory and quit
• -i, --info — show the found command-line programs that will be used, then exit
• -v, --version — show version and exit
• --display=DISPLAY — X display to use
• -?, -h, --help — show help options
• --help-gtk — show GTK+ options
• --help-all — show all help options

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Ingo Brückl, (Giuseppe Torelli until 2014) — legends, both of them 🫶

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🌈 REPORTING BUGS 🌈

found a bug? don't suffer in silence bestie, go here:

https://github.com/ib/xarchiver/issues

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ok real talk, this is the xarchiver page, from June 2026, sitting in section 1 of the manual — and that's the whole thing 💖 now go unzip something and slay 💅✨🎀