Man page 1 : file-roller

file-roller - archive manager for GNOME

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

File Roller is a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip.

It supports most common operations such as creating, modifing and extracting files from an archive. You can also view the contents of an archive and open files contained in the archive.

-a, --add-to=ARCHIVE

    Add files to the specified archive and quit the program

-d, --add FILE

    Add files asking the name of the archive and quit the program

-e, --extract-to=FOLDER

    Extract archives to the specified folder and quit the program

-f, --extract

    Extract archives asking the destination folder and quit the program

-h, --extract-here

    Extract archives using the archive name as destination folder and quit the program

--default-dir=FOLDER

    Default folder to use for the '--add' and '--extract' commands

--force

    Create destination folder without asking confirmation

This program also accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.

file-roller is written by Paolo Bacchilega <>.

This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

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The online documentation available through the program's Helpmenu.