Command line options

Table 3.1. Command line options

Short optionLong optionFunction
-x destination archive--extract-to=destination archiveExtract archive to the destination directory and quit.
-e archive--extract archiveExtract archive by asking the destination directory and quit.
-m [archive1 ... archiveN]--multi-extract [archive1 ... archiveN]Open the Multi-Extract dialog to extract the given archives. Shell wildcards such as * are allowed.
-c file1 ... fileN--compress=file1 ... fileNAdd the given files by asking the name of the archive and quit. If the archive doesn't exist it will be created. The filenames must be separated by spaces.
-a archive--add archiveAdd to archive by asking which files and quit.
-?--helpShow help information and quit.


Xarchiver supports also all generic GTK+ options, a list is available on the help screen.