In the KDE desktop environment, Ark is a graphical user interface (GUI) tool for creating, viewing, and extracting archive files. It is similar to other archive utilities such as 7-Zip, WinZip, and WinRAR.
To use Ark, you can either launch it from the KDE application launcher or run the “ark” command in a terminal. For example, to open Ark from the terminal, you can use the following command:
# ark
Once Ark is open, you can use it to create, view, and extract archive files. For example, to create a new archive, you can select the “File” menu and then choose the “New” option. This will open a dialog where you can select the files you want to include in the archive and specify the name and location of the new archive file.
To extract the contents of an existing archive, you can open the archive file in Ark and then select the “Extract” button. This will open a dialog where you can specify the destination folder for the extracted files.
ark Command Examples
1. Extract a specific archive into the current directory:
# ark --batch {{path/to/archive}}
2. Extract an archive into a specific directory:
# ark --batch --destination {{path/to/directory}} {{path/to/archive}}
3. Create an archive if it does not exist and add specific files to it:
# ark --add-to {{path/to/archive}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}