Xarchiver free open-source tool for handling archives on Linux and FreeBSD systems



Xarchiver open-source tool for handling archives on Linux and FreeBSD systems:

Xarchiver is the best open-source tool for handling archives on Linux and FreeBSD operating systems. It has a Desktop Environment independent archiver GUI. 

It supports commonly used archive formats. 

The deb and RPM packages are handled without their package managers being installed. 

Xarchiver only depends on the GTK+ libraries,xdg-utils, and utilizes various compressor/archiver command-line programs at runtime.

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It allows users to perform the following operations:

1] Create and modify archives.

2] View the different file content of an archive.

3] View a file contained in an archive.

4] Extract files from an archive file.

5] View properties for the archive file.

6] Test the archived file contents.

7] List files in text format.

8] List files in HTML format.

9] Extract Multiple file archives in a single operation. 

 

about-xarchiver

 Xarchiver supports the file archive operation in the following file formats:

1] zip,7zip.bzip2,gzip

2] cpio,epub,jar,oxt

3] lzma,xpi,xz

4] tar.bzip2,tar.gzip,tar.lzma,tar.xz


 Xarchiver supports the file opening of the following file formats:

1] zip,7zip.bzip2,gzip

2] cpio,epub,jar,oxt

3] lzma,xpi,xz

4] tar.bzip2,tar.gzip,tar.lzma,tar.xz

5] arj,deb,rar,rpm

6] tar.bz2,tar.gz,tgz

7] tlz,txz,z

xarchiver-tool


Steps to create an Archive file:

1] Click Archive tab or +(plus symbol) --->Click New

2] Provide file name 

3] Select folder 

4] Select Archive type

5] Click create button

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How to add files into the archive file:

1]  Click Archive tab or +(plus symbol) --->Click New

2] Open archive file using Click Archive tab --->Click Open

3] Click Action Tab 

4] Click Add option.

xarchiver-add-files-to-archive


Steps to Open an Archive file:

1] Click Archive tab or +(plus symbol) --->Click New

2] Open archive file using Click Archive tab --->Click Open

3] Click Action Tab 

4] Select folder & file to open

xarchiver-open-file-archive


Steps to Extract an Archive file:

1] Click Archive tab or +(plus symbol) --->Click New

2]Open archive file using Click Archive tab --->Click Open

Or Click the open archive symbol.

4] Click Action Tab

5] Click the extract option.

6]Select the destination folder to extract files.

7]Click the extract button.

xarchiver-extract-archive


How to check archived file properties:

1] Click Archive tab or +(plus symbol) --->Click New

2]Open archive file using Click Archive tab --->Click Open

Or Click the open archive symbol.

3]  Click the Archive tab & click on the properties option.

xarchiver-file-properties


How to rename existing archive file:

1] Click Archive tab or +(plus symbol) --->Click New

2]Open archive file using Click Archive tab --->Click Open

Or Click the open archive symbol.

3] Click the Archive tab & Click the save-as option.


How to Test the existing archive file:

1] Click Archive tab or +(plus symbol) --->Click New

2]Open archive file using Click Archive tab --->Click Open

Or Click the open archive symbol.

3] Click the Archive tab &  Click the Test option.


How to Generate text list contents for file archive:

1] Click Archive tab or +(plus symbol) --->Click New

2]Open archive file using Click Archive tab --->Click Open

Or Click the open archive symbol.

3] Click the Archive tab &  Click the List-as text file option.

xarchive-list-files-html-format


How to Generate HTML list contents for file archive:

1] Click Archive tab or +(plus symbol) --->Click New

2]Open archive file using Click Archive tab --->Click Open

Or Click the open archive symbol.

3] Click the Archive tab &  Click the List-as HTML file option.

xarchive-list-files-text-format


Extract Multiple file archives in a single operation:

1] Click the Action tab.

2] Click the Multi-extract option.

3] Click Add button to include(add) multiple files.

4] Select the destination directory.

5] Click the Extract button.

xarchive-multiple-file-extract


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