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KDE's "ark" as a command-line universal (un)archiver

Posted 07-28-2014 at 02:44 PM by the dsc
Tags ark, zip

For some reason I was having issues with some zip files. "Unzip" wouldn't unzip them, but ark (and perhaps other GUI archivers) would.

Fortunately ark can be used as a command line tool as well, which can be better than needlessly opening the full GUI just to make something so trivial. You still can invoke just the dialog, anyway.

But in order to extract something, for example, one can just use:

ark -b file.zip -o ./extantfolder

Perhaps there's some "option" to make it auto-generate a containing folder, but I couldn't find it yet. By default it extracts on the current folder. File name collisions will be prompted with KDE's graphical file name collision dialog, but unfortunately it seems to not work right, that is, "rename all" won't work, you'd have to click "rename" and confirm for each. So it's better to create a folder and extract there while it doesn't get bug-fixed, if it will ever be.

That's how far my knowledge/usage was up to now, but I guess it will work with other archive types and also in the opposite direction. "Man ark".
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